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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the setting in the beginning of Act 2, Scene 3?
(a) Gloucestershire.
(b) Berkeley.
(c) Ravenspurgh.
(d) London.

2. Who tells of Bolingbroke's arrival in England?
(a) Green.
(b) The Duke of York.
(c) Bushy.
(d) Bagot.

3. Who is the first to speak in Act 2, Scene 3?
(a) Northumberland.
(b) Ross.
(c) Percy.
(d) Bolingbroke.

4. Who addresses Bolingbroke as "Lord Hereford" in Act 2, Scene 3?
(a) Berkeley.
(b) Northumberland.
(c) York.
(d) Sir Pierce of Exton.

5. What is the Duchess of Gloucester's purpose in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) She worries aloud about money.
(b) She begs Gaunt to avenge her husband's death.
(c) She confesses that she did not love the Duke.
(d) She begs Gaunt to act humanely.

6. Where does York tell the men to meet him as he leaves Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) Berkeley Castle.
(b) Buckingham Palace.
(c) Windsor Castle.
(d) Ireland.

7. What is the major concern of Act 2, Scene 4?
(a) Richard has not returned from Ireland.
(b) There are rumors afloat Richard has been taken prisoner.
(c) The army is running out of food.
(d) The Queen is beginning to go insane.

8. Which of the following lines is what the Queen says to the bearer of the news of Bolingbroke?
(a) "There is no higher evil than Bolingbroke."
(b) "Your news feels of demons ripping my inside."
(c) "What right have you to deliver such agony to the Queen?"
(d) "Thou art the midwife to my woe."

9. How does Bolingbroke justify executing the prisoners?
(a) He knows they were both about to murder.
(b) He says it is a favor to the king.
(c) He says it is a favor to the Christian church.
(d) He says God tells him to do it.

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

11. Which nation does York refer to as he discusses vanity?
(a) France.
(b) Russia.
(c) Italy.
(d) Switzerland.

12. What does Northumberland then confide to Ross and Willoughby in Act 2, Scene 1?
(a) That he is secretly planning to assassinate Richard.
(b) That he killed Gaunt.
(c) That he is going to join Richard in his invasion of Ireland.
(d) That Bolingbroke is returning to England with an army.

13. Who is the first to speak in Act 1, Scene 4?
(a) Green.
(b) Lord Aumerle.
(c) Richard.
(d) Bagot.

14. Who is upset over Richard's absence in Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) Bushy.
(b) The Duke of York.
(c) Green.
(d) The Queen.

15. "...for God's substitute, His deputy anointed in His sight..." Who is being referred to here?
(a) The judge.
(b) The pope.
(c) The shaman.
(d) The king.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many lines are in Act 2, Scene 4?

2. For whom does Richard reduce Bolingbroke's sentence?

3. Who is Gaunt alluding to have killed the Duke of Gloucester as he speaks alone with the Duchess?

4. Who is at Bristow Castle in Act 2, Scene 2?

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

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