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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Eleanor say to them?
(a) Do not hurt each other. I do not want blood on my carpet.
(b) Go ahead and kill each other. I am tired of dealing with the lot of you.
(c) Stop already!
(d) People with their differences and hatreds are the origins of war but they could also be the origins of peace.

2. Why does this make no difference to Eleanor?
(a) She is already a prisoner.
(b) She does not want him to be king.
(c) She wants him to love Alais.
(d) She does not like him either.

3. Geoffrey enters and tries to convince John to do what?
(a) Leave.
(b) Kill Henry.
(c) Take the throne by force.
(d) Trust him.

4. How does Eleanor then greet Alais?
(a) With visible jealousy.
(b) With a shove.
(c) With silence.
(d) With genuine fondness.

5. Henry says in the years Eleanor's been in prison he's surprised himself by discovering what?
(a) How sorry he is for locking her up.
(b) How much he misses her.
(c) How old she has become.
(d) How sick he is of war.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alais tell Henry about what John thinks?

2. As Eleanor drinks her wine, what does she recall?

3. John enters, saying he wants to do what?

4. What does Philip demand?

5. Why does Henry say this person should inherit the crown?

(see the answer key)

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