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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Mowbray and Bolingbroke state officially that they are fighting for at the duel?
(a) Mowbray claims adultery while Bolingbroke claims theft.
(b) Both claim the other is a traitor.
(c) Both claim the other killed the Duke of Gloucester.
(d) Both love the same woman.

2. Who is the first character to speak in Act 2, Scene 4?
(a) Richard.
(b) Salisbury.
(c) Captain.
(d) Berkley.

3. Who is Gaunt alluding to have killed the Duke of Gloucester as he speaks alone with the Duchess?
(a) The Duke of Aumerle.
(b) Bolingbroke.
(c) Richard.
(d) Woodstock.

4. What adjective does Richard use to describe Bolingbroke that is condescending?
(a) High.
(b) Fierce.
(c) Mighty.
(d) Proud.

5. Who is the first to speak in Act 2, Scene 1?
(a) Richard.
(b) Northumberland.
(c) York.
(d) Gaunt.

6. Which characters are in Act 2, Scene 4?
(a) Salisbury, Berkley, and five sergeants.
(b) Salisbury and Captain.
(c) None of these is correct.
(d) Salisbury, Captain, and Lord Marshall.

7. What do the characters decide to do at the end of Act 2, Scene 4?
(a) They will kill themselves.
(b) They will not stay.
(c) They will invade Ireland on their own.
(d) They will wait.

8. Where does Richard say he is to go immediately following Act 1, Scene 4?
(a) To see Gaunt.
(b) To eat dinner with the Queen.
(c) To prepare his army's generals.
(d) To ride his horse.

9. Who is the last character to speak in Act 2, Scene 1?
(a) Willoughby.
(b) The Gardener.
(c) Ross.
(d) Northumberland.

10. What is Gaunt talking about during his famous speech in Act 2, Scene 1?
(a) Richard.
(b) Life.
(c) England.
(d) Family.

11. Where is the setting of Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) An orchard.
(b) Gaunt's house.
(c) A chapel.
(d) Windsor Castle.

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

13. What made Aumerle cry when he said goodbye to Bolingbroke?
(a) Knowing his cousin's father would soon die.
(b) The wind.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Seeing his cousin banished from England.

14. Who does Bolingbroke specifically promise to "weed and pluck away" in Act 2, Scene 3?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Bushy and Bagot.
(c) Richard.
(d) Green.

15. Who is fleeing straight to Richard after learning of Bolingbroke's arrival?
(a) Bagot.
(b) The Queen.
(c) Green.
(d) Bushy.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Though banish'd, yet a true born Englishman." Who says this quote?

2. "More welcome is the stroke of death to me than Bolingbroke to England." Who says this?

3. "...for God's substitute, His deputy anointed in His sight..." Who is being referred to here?

4. Of which quality of Bolingbroke does Richard worry?

5. Who invites Bolingbroke to stay at Berkley Castle?

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