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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 4, Scenes 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following promises is not one that Sir John makes to Kent and Mortimer in Scene 2?
(a) Money.
(b) Comfort.
(c) Friends.
(d) Arms.

2. What does Isabella decide to do when Mortimer Junior leaves in Scene 3?
(a) Go with Mortimer.
(b) Stay at a nearby castle.
(c) Go to King Edward.
(d) Return to France.

3. Which vice does Mortimer Junior say is the "venom" that Gaveston has brought to the realm (I.ii.31)?
(a) Ambitious pride.
(b) Luxurious indolence.
(c) Common scorn.
(d) Unnatural lust.

4. Whom does Edward send to fight the rebellious Scots in this scene?
(a) Mortimer Senior.
(b) Pembroke.
(c) Lancaster.
(d) Warwick.

5. What does Edward III want to do at the beginning of Scene 2?
(a) Return to England.
(b) Raise an army in France.
(c) Build a manor in Normandy.
(d) Entreat Valois for help.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what relation are the two Mortimers?

2. Where is Isabella headed when Mortimer halts her in Scene 2?

3. Spencer and Baldock served what newly-deceased lord?

4. What offer does John of Hainault make Isabella and Edward III in Scene 2?

5. Over what two forms of execution do the nobles argue regarding Gaveston in Scene 4?

(see the answer key)

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