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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is McFearson?
(a) Cordelia's husband.
(b) The Small Man.
(c) The Gravedigger Boy's son.
(d) Lear's son.

2. 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) Bodice.
(b) Carpenter.
(c) Lear.
(d) Cordelia.

3. 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) Cordelia.
(b) Lear.
(c) Carpenter.
(d) Bodice.

4. What does Lear ask of Cornelia in Act 3?
(a) To leave the country.
(b) To tear down the wall.
(c) To free him.
(d) To speak to the people.

5. What does Carpenter tell the soldiers they don't have left?
(a) A HQ.
(b) A chance.
(c) A cause.
(d) A leader.

6. 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.

7. What do the soldiers contemplate doing in Act 2, Scene 5?
(a) Deserting.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Murder.
(d) Interrogation.

8. Where does Act 3 begin?
(a) The Gravedigger's Boy's house.
(b) The War Room.
(c) The castle.
(d) The prison.

9. Who kills the Ghost?
(a) Cordelia.
(b) Lear.
(c) The pigs.
(d) Thomas.

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

11. What does the Small Man say they're saying in the camps?
(a) That Lear is a traitor.
(b) That Cordelia will have them all killed.
(c) That there's a revolution brewing.
(d) That Lear will blow up the wall.

12. What has Cordelia ordered Lear to stop doing?
(a) Fighting the rebels.
(b) Arresting soldiers.
(c) Speaking publicly.
(d) Feeding the poor.

13. Who accompanies the soldiers in Act 3, Scene 3?
(a) Carpenter.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) Councillor.
(d) Lear.

14. Who is leading Lear in Act 3, Scene 4?
(a) Thomas.
(b) Susan.
(c) The Ghost.
(d) Jason.

15. Who was buried near where Lear is in Act 3, Scene 3?
(a) Thomas and John.
(b) Bodice and Fontanelle.
(c) Susan and Thomas.
(d) Warrington and the Gravedigger's Boy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who offers to help Lear escape the prison?

2. What does the prisoner do to Fontanelle's body?

3. What is the story about that Lear tells in Act 3, Scene 2?

4. Who is the Junior Officer in the last scene?

5. How does Fontanelle die?

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