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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the King demand of Prince Hal?
(a) To report to court next morning.
(b) A return to his studies at school.
(c) Leadership of the King's army.
(d) The stolen money.

2. What does Hotspur tell his wife when she asks about his plans?
(a) He is leaving that day.
(b) He will kill the King.
(c) He will follow his father.
(d) He will be king.

3. What do Falstaff and the thieves do to the travelers?
(a) Slit their throats and toss the bodies off the cliff.
(b) Kill them and take their gold.
(c) Beat them senseless.
(d) Rob them and bind them.

4. Who does King Henry IV send to fetch Prince Hal from the tavern?
(a) Young Gallic Douglas.
(b) Sir John Gaunt.
(c) Mistress Quickly.
(d) Sir John Bracy.

5. What does the King want his son to explain about his recent, errant behavior?
(a) Why he won't marry Glendower's daughter.
(b) What he plans to do with his life.
(c) Why he hangs out with lowlife people in bars.
(d) When he is going to claim the throne.

6. What does Francis give to the Prince as a gift?
(a) Cinnamon.
(b) Parsley.
(c) Salt.
(d) Sugar.

7. Who is Henry Bolingbroke?
(a) King Henry IV.
(b) Landowner on the banks of Wye.
(c) Leader of the rebellion.
(d) Bolingbroke of Trent.

8. What does the Prince promise to be more like in the future after being scolded by his father?
(a) Himself.
(b) His God.
(c) His mother.
(d) His father.

9. What does Falstaff want to know at the start of Act 1, scene 2?
(a) What time it is.
(b) Where he is.
(c) Where the bar wench has gone to.
(d) What day it is.

10. Who does the King order out of his sight?
(a) Worcester.
(b) Queen Anne.
(c) Prince Hal.
(d) Princess Glendower.

11. Where is the council meeting in Scene 3?
(a) Lady Glendower's palace.
(b) Northumberland's chambers.
(c) High Court in London.
(d) Windsor Castle.

12. What does Falstaff call the travelers?
(a) Window-less, mind-less, blank chumps.
(b) Bacon-fed, fat chuffs, gorebellied knaves.
(c) Writers of tall tales.
(d) Miners of no great worth.

13. What time is the "first cock?"
(a) Dusk.
(b) Midnight.
(c) Noon.
(d) Six a.m.

14. Who is Sir John Paunch?
(a) St. Nicholas' clerk.
(b) The father of Sir John Gaunt.
(c) Falstaff.
(d) Grandfather of all thieves.

15. Why is the King so angry with Mortimer?
(a) He retreated from battle.
(b) He changed his loyalty.
(c) He has run from his post.
(d) He did not fight valiantly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does it mean to colt someone?

2. What is the situation in Act 3, Scene 2?

3. Who corroborates Hotspur's account of what happened with the well-dressed man on the battlefield?

4. Who does the King wish was his true son?

5. What does Falstaff do to support his false story?

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