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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who are the first characters to enter Act 1, Scene 3?
(a) Gaunt, Bolingbroke.
(b) Gaunt, the Duchess of Gloucester.
(c) Lord Marshall, the Duke Aumerle.
(d) Richard, the Queen.

3. "Where then, alas, may I complain myself?" Who says this?
(a) Woodstock.
(b) Richard.
(c) The Duchess of Gloucester.
(d) Gaunt.

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

5. How are Gaunt and Bolingbroke related?
(a) Brothers.
(b) Uncle and nephew.
(c) Father and son.
(d) Cousins.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who of the following characters have not fled to Bolingbroke's army?

2. What is the double metaphor spoken in the Duchess's first speech of the play?

3. Who is Bolingbroke's father?

4. Why is Richard confused about Gaunt's reaction towards Bolingbroke's sentence?

5. What is the final line of Act 2, Scene 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Bolingbroke handle the murder of Richard?

2. What does Mowbray admit to during the feud of the first scene?

3. What is Richard told has happened to the Welsh army? How does Richard respond?

4. Who in Act 2, Scene 4 tries to persuade the other to remain waiting for Richard? Why?

5. How does Act 5, Scene 5 end?

6. What is Bolingbroke going to do to Bushy and Green in Act 3, Scene 1? What are his reasons for doing so?

7. What is the overall mood of Act 2, Scene 2?

8. When is it apparent in the play that Richard will be succeeded?

9. What are the Duchess and the Duke discussing in the beginning of Act 5, Scene 2? What happened in the story?

10. What do Gaunt and York discuss privately in the beginning of Act 2, Scene 1?

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