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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does Lear accuse of betraying him in court?
(a) Judge.
(b) Warrington.
(c) Old Sailor.
(d) Councillor.

2. Who enters with a wooden box in Act 1, Scene 7?
(a) Cordelia.
(b) Lear.
(c) The Gravedigger's Boy.
(d) The Carpenter.

3. Why does the Boy say his wife is upset?
(a) She's crazy.
(b) She's been tortured.
(c) She's pregnant.
(d) She was raped.

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

5. Which of the following is one of Lear's daughters?
(a) Bodice.
(b) Warrington.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) Susan.

6. 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) Bodice.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) Lear.
(d) Fontanelle.

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

8. What is the setting of Act 1, Scene 5?
(a) The woods.
(b) The War Chamber.
(c) The King's Quarters.
(d) The prison.

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

10. How does Lear order the workman killed in Act 1, Scene 1?
(a) Firing squad.
(b) Hanging.
(c) Crucifixion.
(d) Drowning.

11. Where did the "wild man" hide?
(a) The house.
(b) The well.
(c) The trees.
(d) The bushes.

12. How have Lear's daughters had contact with the dukes?
(a) Secret meetings.
(b) Visits with the dukes in the castle.
(c) Through servants.
(d) Letters and photographs.

13. Whom does Lear ask for while in the prison cell?
(a) Cordelia.
(b) The Gravedigger's Boy.
(c) Councillor.
(d) His daughters.

14. Who foretells how Lear's army will attack in Act 1, Scene 3?
(a) North.
(b) Cornelia.
(c) The Carpenter.
(d) Bodice.

15. What does Lear ask of Fontanelle while in the prison cell?
(a) To let him brush her hair.
(b) To sit on his lap.
(c) To sing to him.
(d) To kiss him goodbye.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lear think attacked him in his sleep?

2. Who accompanies Lear in Act 1, Scene 5?

3. How did the Gravedigger's Boy discover the water for the well?

4. Which character says, "I feel confidence in my bones. That's never failed me. If only I were a young man" in Act 1, Scene 2?

5. Who speaks of an animal in a cage at the trial?

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