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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 do that angers Hotspur during their conference?
(a) Compares him to the Prince.
(b) Degrades his way of battle.
(c) Slanders Mortimer's name.
(d) Insults his father.

2. What prompts the King to stop all of his previous plans at the beginning of the play?
(a) News that his son is sick.
(b) A threatening message from Glendower.
(c) Word of the lack of money in the treasury.
(d) News that Mortimer was defeated.

3. How many men does Falstaff claimed attacked him?
(a) 9.
(b) 11.
(c) 15.
(d) 13.

4. What has young Percy done which vexes the King?
(a) Refused to release his prisoners.
(b) Made a great deal of money.
(c) Married the French princess.
(d) Taken land which the King once owned.

5. Who teases Falstaff about being fat in the second scene?
(a) The Prince.
(b) Hotspur.
(c) The King.
(d) Poins.

6. What does Gadshill promise his informant after the robbery?
(a) Rent money.
(b) Protection.
(c) A new horse.
(d) A share in the loot.

7. Where does the beginning of Act 2 take place?
(a) Caterbury.
(b) Rochester.
(c) Sussex.
(d) London.

8. Who is the first character of the play to enter and speak?
(a) Mortimer's wife.
(b) King Henry IV.
(c) Chamberlain Percy.
(d) Falstaff.

9. Who brings a horse for Hotspur while his wife is talking to him?
(a) The Attendant.
(b) The Messenger.
(c) The Butler.
(d) The Ostler.

10. Who is the uncle of Hotspur?
(a) Prince Hal.
(b) Northumberland.
(c) Worcester.
(d) Henry IV.

11. What is the "Wild of Kent?"
(a) Welsh natives.
(b) The open fields in Kent County.
(c) A restaurant nearby.
(d) A room in the Inn.

12. Who does Falstaff think will convince the Prince to help him with the robbery?
(a) The King.
(b) Poins.
(c) Hotspur.
(d) Mistress Quickly.

13. What does Falstaff claim happened to the money they stole?
(a) It was lost on the way back.
(b) A great group of thieves took if from them.
(c) He spent it on women and wine.
(d) Poins hid it.

14. Where is Mortimer fighting at the beginning of the play?
(a) Wales.
(b) Scottland.
(c) Ireland.
(d) France.

15. Who does the King call a true industrious friend?
(a) Mary, Queen of Scots.
(b) Sir Walter Blunt.
(c) Glendower.
(d) Hotspur.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose money do the travelers have?

2. Why is the King so angry with Mortimer?

3. Who attacks Falstaff after the robbery?

4. How does the daughter of Glendower say goodbye to her husband before the Battle of Shrewsbury?

5. How much valor is there in Poins?

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