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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lear do in the last scene of the play?
(a) Shoots Cordelia.
(b) Hangs himself.
(c) Chases away the pigs.
(d) Attempts to dig up the wall.

2. Who asks Lear to stand up in Act 2, Scene 7?
(a) The farmer's wife.
(b) The farmer.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) The Ghost.

3. What does the Junior Officer do to Lear in the last scene?
(a) Frees him.
(b) Shoots him.
(c) Hangs him.
(d) Leaves him.

4. Who says, "But if you listened to everything your conscience told you you'd go mad. You'd never get anything done--and there's a lot to do, some of it very hard"?
(a) Bodice.
(b) Carpenter.
(c) Lear.
(d) Cordelia.

5. Who is the Junior Officer in the last scene?
(a) The Farmer's Boy.
(b) The Gravedigger's Boy.
(c) Thomas.
(d) Carpenter.

6. What does Lear beg the son not to do in Act 2, Scene 7?
(a) Leave the country.
(b) Go to the work camps.
(c) Desert him.
(d) Join the army.

7. Who arrives asking for water in Act 3, Scene 1?
(a) Carpenter.
(b) Constable.
(c) The Small Man.
(d) Cordelia.

8. How does Fontanelle die?
(a) She is beheaded.
(b) She is shot.
(c) She is poisoned.
(d) She is hanged.

9. Who says, "You have two enemies, lies and the truth. You sacrifice truth to destroy lies, and you sacrifice life to destroy death. It isn't sane"?
(a) Cordelia.
(b) Lear.
(c) Bodice.
(d) Carpenter.

10. For whom does Lear call when he's being led by the soldiers?
(a) Ophelia.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) The Ghost.
(d) Bodice.

11. What sound startles the soldiers in Act 2, Scene 5?
(a) Cannon fire.
(b) A train.
(c) A car.
(d) Gunshots.

12. Which character says, "If God made the world, might would always be right, that would be so wise, we'd be spared so much suffering. But we made the world--out of our smallness and weakness"?
(a) Cordelia.
(b) Carpenter.
(c) Lear.
(d) The Ghost.

13. Who meets Lear in the woods in Act 3?
(a) Cornelia and Carpenter.
(b) Bodice and Fontanelle.
(c) Susan and John.
(d) Susan and Carpenter.

14. Where are the civilians being sent in Act 2, Scene 7?
(a) A work camp.
(b) To the highlands.
(c) To war.
(d) To the well.

15. Who returns in Act 2, Scene 6?
(a) Cordelia.
(b) The Ghost.
(c) The child.
(d) The Steward.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Carpenter tell the soldiers they don't have left?

2. Which character says, "I have lived with murderers and thugs, there are limits to their greed and violence, but you decent, honest men devour the earth"?

3. What are the soldiers studying in Act 2, Scene 5?

4. Who says, "I came here when I was cold and hungry and afraid. I wasn't turned away, and I won't turn anyone away"?

5. What does Thomas say to the villagers after Lear has kicked them all out?

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