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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 4, Prologue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color does Hostess Quickly say Falstaff did not like?
(a) Carnation.
(b) Rose.
(c) Scarlet.
(d) Burgundy.

2. What does Alice tell Katherine when she pronounces "neck" as "nick" and "chin" as "sin"?
(a) That she needs to pay closer attention to how the words are pronounced.
(b) That she pronounces the words as well as English natives.
(c) To stop wasting her time and stick with French.
(d) Not to worry, because she can always hire interpreters.

3. To what does Henry compare his men as they are eagerly awaiting battle?
(a) Race horses.
(b) Tigers.
(c) Greyhounds.
(d) Fighting dogs.

4. What words from Alice's lesson does Katherine consider too vulgar to speak before the gentlemen of France?
(a) Fingre and nails.
(b) Arm and elbow.
(c) Foot and count.
(d) Nick and sin.

5. What is a term that Henry does NOT use when addressing the soldiers in the camp?
(a) Countrymen.
(b) Friends.
(c) Loyal subjects.
(d) Brothers.

Short Answer Questions

1. From which port city does the chorus say King Henry will sail to France?

2. Henry tells his army that "when the blast of war blows in our ears," to imitate the action of which animal?

3. What time does the chorus say it is based upon the sounds coming from the crowing country cocks and the clocks?

4. What does Katherine think after she has learned two words in English?

5. Hostess Quickly believes that Sir John Falstaff is not in hell, but in the bosom of __________.

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