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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What weapons do the rebel soldiers carry?
(a) Battle-axes.
(b) Swords.
(c) Scimitars.
(d) Rifles.
2. Whom does Lear ask for while in the prison cell?
(a) The Gravedigger's Boy.
(b) Councillor.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) His daughters.
3. What does Lear ask of Fontanelle while in the prison cell?
(a) To kiss him goodbye.
(b) To sing to him.
(c) To sit on his lap.
(d) To let him brush her hair.
4. Who is the first to sit on the witness stand at Lear's trial?
(a) Bodice.
(b) Fontanelle.
(c) Cleric.
(d) Warrington.
5. Where is Lear taken after the trial?
(a) A prison cell.
(b) The guillotine.
(c) The graveyard.
(d) The firing squad.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which character says, "Politics is the higher form of justice"?
2. Why does Lear, in an aside, tell his daughter the workman is being executed?
3. Why does the Boy say his wife is upset?
4. What happens to the captured soldier in Act 2, Scene 3?
5. Which of the following is one of Lear's daughters?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who is the Carpenter? What is revealed to Lear about this character? How does he fit into the plot?
2. Describe how Lear is blinded in the prison scene. Why is he blinded?
3. Who is the wild man living in the woods? How does he know Lear?
4. Describe the Farmer and his family. How do they feel about Lear?
5. Who is leading a revolution against Bodice and Fontanelle? How do we learn this information?
6. What is the irony of Lear's death on the Wall at the final scene?
7. Why do Fontanelle and Bodice capture their husbands and keep them imprisoned?
8. Why does Lear tell Cornelia she must destroy the wall? What does he say regarding pity?
9. What does the Orderly say about his imprisonment to Lear in Act 2?
10. How does Lear feel about the Duke of North and the Duke of Cornwall? Why?
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