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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Bolingbroke's banishment reduced to?
(a) Fifteen years.
(b) Six years.
(c) Twenty years.
(d) Ten years.

2. Why don't Bolingbroke and Mowbray forgive one another?
(a) Both have not shared everything they are upset over.
(b) It would be forfeiting their honor.
(c) They have both sworn to God they would seek vengeance.
(d) They have had a rivalry since childhood.

3. Who is the first character to speak in Act 1, Scene 1?
(a) Mowbray.
(b) Richard.
(c) Gaunt.
(d) Bolingbroke

4. How does Gaunt try to persuade Bolingbroke to think of his banishment?
(a) As a pleasurable journey.
(b) As a time to grow as a man.
(c) As a time to find a wife.
(d) As his civic duty.

5. Who does Mowbray admit to have scheming against in the past?
(a) The Duke of Aumerle.
(b) Bolingbroke.
(c) Gaunt.
(d) Richard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Duchess of Gloucester's purpose in Act 1, Scene 2?

2. "Where then, alas, may I complain myself?" Who says this?

3. "What my tongue speaks my right drawn sword may prove." Who says this?

4. Who was Richard's uncle and Gaunt's brother?

5. : For what day is the duel set?

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