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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a "franklin?"

2. What are the skies filled with when Glendower is born?

3. What does the King do that angers Hotspur during their conference?

4. What does Poins do when he slips away from Falstaff and Gadshill?

5. What does Lady Percy say her husband spends all his time talking about?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Sir John Falstaff?

2. What does the Prince say in his soliloquy after Poins leaves his apartment?

3. What are the carriers complaining about at the beginning of Act 2?

4. What is Prince Hal's thinking in terms of his eventual return to court life?

5. How does Shakespeare cue the audience as to where a scene, such as Hotspur at Warkworth Castle, is taking place?

6. What does the Prince promise his father he will do on the battlefield?

7. What attitude does Hotspur have towards the coming battle, now that his forces are weakened?

8. How does the Chamberlain say Gadhill will die, and how does Gadshill respond to this?

9. What does Mortimer's wife say and do when she comes into the room with Glendower?

10. When the Percy family meets with Mortimer and Glendower in Wales why are they looking at a map?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Shakespeare's time women could not act on stage and so he was limited in the number of female characters he could put into each play. There was probably a limited supply of male actors who could "pass" as women onstage. Describe the types of women that are in this play. How many are there? What is their function? Are they major or minor characters?

Essay Topic 2

Write a character study of Prince Hal. What is his relationship to the King? To Falstaff? What stage of his life is he in? What happens to his character over the life of this play? Does he become more himself or does he abandon his true self when he returns to his royal personage?

Essay Topic 3

This book takes place in a few different settings. Describe some of these settings and how they affected the course of the plot. Why might Shakespeare have chosen these particular places for this plot to take place?

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