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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who maniacally encourages the torture of Warrington?
(a) Cordelia.
(b) Lear.
(c) Bodice.
(d) Fontanelle.

2. What happens to the captured soldier in Act 2, Scene 3?
(a) He is hanged.
(b) He is shot.
(c) He joins the rebels.
(d) He is freed.

3. Who suggests the workman be imprisoned rather than executed?
(a) Lear.
(b) Warrington.
(c) The Duke of Cornwall.
(d) The Duke of Westminster.

4. What has killed one of the workers on the wall?
(a) A fallen stone.
(b) An explosion.
(c) A fallen axe.
(d) A bear.

5. Which character says, "O don't waste your hypocrisy on me. You tried to kill yours once. My spies told me and they don't lie. They're the only moral institution in this country"?
(a) Cordelia.
(b) Lear.
(c) Bodice.
(d) Fontanelle.

6. What does the Gravedigger's Boy find in the well?
(a) A knife.
(b) A dead pig.
(c) A soldier.
(d) Warrington's body.

7. Where does Act 1, Scene 3 take place?
(a) The Daughters' War Council.
(b) The Prison.
(c) The King's Chambers.
(d) The Battlefield.

8. What does Lear think attacked him in his sleep?
(a) A ghost.
(b) A wild bear.
(c) A wolf.
(d) A soldier.

9. Who shoots the workman in Act 1, Scene 1?
(a) Lear.
(b) Warrington.
(c) The Firing Squad.
(d) Bodice.

10. Who is the first to sit on the witness stand at Lear's trial?
(a) Bodice.
(b) Cleric.
(c) Fontanelle.
(d) Warrington.

11. What does Bodice say regarding the prisons in Act 2, Scene 4?
(a) They've been burned.
(b) They are empty.
(c) They had to be evacuated.
(d) They are overflowing.

12. What job does the Wife give the Carpenter to do?
(a) Tending Lear.
(b) Tending the pigs.
(c) Cleaning the well.
(d) Mending the door.

13. Who advises the king to refuse the war?
(a) The Captain.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) Warrington.
(d) Bodice.

14. Who says in an aside that she is disappointed in her husband?
(a) Susan.
(b) Fontanelle.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) Bodice.

15. What does the Carpenter bring to the Wife?
(a) A pig.
(b) A cradle.
(c) Bread.
(d) A blanket.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Act 1, Scene 1, who claims to have proof that the "enemies" Lear speaks of are not actually enemies?

2. What does Lear recognize in the well bucket?

3. What action does Bodice perform throughout Act 1, Scene 3?

4. Who has asked Warrington to betray the king?

5. Who asks to stay with Lear in his cell?

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