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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. Why doesn't the Old Orderly know Lear's crime?
(a) He died.
(b) He was brainwashed.
(c) The fire killed the judge.
(d) The records were lost.

2. What does Fontanelle complain about in Act 1, Scene 1?
(a) Her feet are wet.
(b) Her hands are cold.
(c) She doesn't approve of the wall.
(d) She is hungry.

3. Who has asked Warrington to betray the king?
(a) The Gravedigger's Boy.
(b) The Captain.
(c) Lear's daughters.
(d) Cordelia.

4. What is the name of the wife of the Gravedigger's Boy?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Cordelia.
(c) Susan.
(d) Bodice.

5. What does Bodice demand be handed to Lear while at the trial?
(a) A letter.
(b) A mirror.
(c) A baby.
(d) A goblet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Lear taken after the trial?

2. Which character says, "Virility! It'd be easier to get blood out of a stone, and far more probable. I've bribed a major on his staff to shoot him in the battle"?

3. What is the setting at the beginning of Act 1, Scene 2?

4. Who foretells how Lear's army will attack in Act 1, Scene 3?

5. What happens to the captured soldier in Act 2, Scene 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is the wild man living in the woods? How does he know Lear?

2. Who is the Carpenter? What is revealed to Lear about this character? How does he fit into the plot?

3. Who appears to Lear in prison? How was this character known to Lear before this point?

4. Why does the Ghost stay with Lear at the end of Act 2, Scene 2?

5. Describe Lear's reaction to the mirror in the court scene.

6. What is the argument between Lear and the Gravedigger's Wife? How do these characters feel about each other?

7. What does Lear say about the Farmer's Son joining the army? How does this show a change in his character?

8. What does Lear offer to the strangers who arrive at the house? What is Thomas's reaction?

9. What does Fontanelle say on the stand against her father?

10. What is the irony of Lear's death on the Wall at the final scene?

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