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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the prisoner do to Fontanelle's body?
(a) Autopsies it.
(b) Burns it.
(c) Removes it.
(d) Revives it.

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

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

4. Whose food does Lear offer to the newcomers at the house?
(a) Susan's.
(b) His own.
(c) Cordelia's.
(d) Thomas's.

5. How much time passes between Act 3, Scene 1 and Act 3, Scene 3?
(a) One day.
(b) One year.
(c) Several months.
(d) Ten years.

6. Who speaks the last lines in the play?
(a) Susan.
(b) The Ghost.
(c) Lear.
(d) The Farmer's Son.

7. What does Lear kneel by in Act 2, Scene 7?
(a) The river.
(b) The wall.
(c) The well.
(d) The castle.

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

9. Who does Carpenter tell Fontanelle has been captured?
(a) The Ghost.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) Bodice.
(d) Lear.

10. What frightens the pigs, making them run?
(a) The soldiers.
(b) The Ghost.
(c) Susan.
(d) Lear.

11. What is used to kill Bodice?
(a) A noose.
(b) Fire.
(c) A bayonet.
(d) A rifle.

12. Whom do the soldiers come to take away in Act 3, Scene 2?
(a) Lear.
(b) Ben and the Small Man.
(c) Cordelia and the Gravedigger's Boy.
(d) Thomas.

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

14. Where does the Ghost promise to lead Lear after leaving the prison?
(a) To the house he lived in.
(b) To the cemetery.
(c) To the church.
(d) To the battle field.

15. What are the soldiers studying in Act 2, Scene 5?
(a) A dead soldier.
(b) A map.
(c) A ravine.
(d) A canyon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the prisoners pass around in Act 2, Scene 5?

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

3. 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"?

4. Who accompanies Lear in Act 2, Scene 7?

5. 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"?

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