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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What order does Henry give Exeter after the alarm sounds?
(a) Try to trick the French into thinking they are going to surrender.
(b) Retreat.
(c) Regroup and charge once more.
(d) Tell every soldier to kill his prisoners.

2. What does the chorus ask the audience to imagine is happening on the English beach?
(a) Crabs and other seafood are being collected for a celebration.
(b) Soldiers are basking in the sun before returning home.
(c) Soldiers are being reunited with their families.
(d) English ships are running aground because of a storm.

3. After witnessing a poignant scene involving the deaths of two soldiers, what is Exeter's emotional response?
(a) He began laughing hysterically even though he knew it was inappropriate.
(b) He was moved to tears.
(c) He screamed in anger.
(d) He swallowed hard, but refused to cry.

4. The chorus says the two army camps are so close together they can do which of the following:
(a) Taste the food in their enemy's bowl.
(b) See each other's faces and almost hear each other's conversations.
(c) Smell each other's fear.
(d) Accidentally wander into their enemy's tents.

5. What does Henry say is the meaning of the alarm that sounds as he and Exeter are speaking?
(a) The French have surrendered.
(b) The French have reinforced their scattered men.
(c) Reinforcements from England have finally arrived.
(d) All the English soldiers have died, been captured, or have run away.

6. What additional information does the boy give the French soldier regarding Pistol's acceptance of the bribe?
(a) That if he surrenders himself to the king, the king will be merciful and he will not need to pay the bribe.
(b) That the boy has told Pistol that the amount is less than what the soldier has offered so he can get his cut.
(c) It is against his oath to pardon any prisoner.
(d) That Pistol does not understand French currency and would have let him go for much less.

7. What had led Fluellen into thinking that Pistol was a valiant warrior?
(a) He had put himself in harm's way to rescue an injured comrade.
(b) The fighting skills he displayed at Harfleur.
(c) Exeter had declared as much.
(d) His brave words at the bridge.

8. What does Henry say he and his army will do after they bury their dead and perform some post-battle religious rituals?
(a) Celebrate their victory and recover from battle in the French countryside.
(b) Go to Calais, then return to England.
(c) Prepare for the next battle.
(d) Go to Paris to discuss the terms of the peace treaty.

9. What topic are the Dauphin, the constable, and Orleans discussing when an argument breaks out?
(a) Their prowess as warriors.
(b) Women.
(c) Horses.
(d) King Henry.

10. What does Westmoreland wish for before the battle of Agincourt begins?
(a) A horse as good as Henry's.
(b) A hot meal.
(c) Ten thousand more English troops.
(d) That Henry would ransom himself so the rest of them go home.

11. What does the Dauphin suggest they do before the battle to make the fight fairer?
(a) Leave the horses and face the English on foot.
(b) Send only sick and injured soldiers to fight.
(c) Strike their swords on rocks to dull them.
(d) Send the English food and fresh suits of armor.

12. What is Williams' response to Henry (who is in disguise) when Henry says that the king would not be ransomed?
(a) Only because it is not the way of the French to hold men for ransom.
(b) That he may indeed be ransomed but they would not know the difference once their throats had been cut.
(c) The English would never be willing to pay a ransom, even for Henry.
(d) He agrees that Henry would not permit such a thing to happen.

13. Why is the constable confident that they will be able to defeat the English?
(a) They outnumber the English.
(b) He believes God is on their side.
(c) The English will be too hungry to fight.
(d) The English have been weakened by an outbreak of pox.

14. What do Henry and Williams exchange as proof of their quarrel with each other?
(a) Locks of their own hair.
(b) Swords.
(c) Gloves.
(d) Rings.

15. When Henry comes upon the scene of the murdered boys guarding the luggage, he says he has not been angry since . . .
(a) The battle of Harfleur.
(b) The Dauphin sent him tennis balls.
(c) He has come to France.
(d) Montjoy came to propose that he ransom himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the messenger say the English are when he reports to the constable?

2. What does Pistol plan to do for a living now that he no longer has Nell to support him?

3. What does Fluellen force Pistol to do or he will continue to beat him?

4. What does the constable say he will take as he rides to the battlefield?

5. What does Pistol say has happened to Doll (Nell) that suggests she may have been unfaithful to him?

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