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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Prince do when he slips away from Falstaff and Gadshill?
(a) Runs away.
(b) Gets in disguise.
(c) Finds a police man.
(d) Starts a fire.

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

3. What is the job of a carrier?
(a) Carry goods from one place to the next.
(b) Organize tavern gatherings.
(c) Convey groups of people across the country.
(d) Take care of horses and donkeys.

4. Who is "The Douglas?"
(a) Entire Douglass clan of Glendower.
(b) Welsh Noble Lord, Ralston, Head of Douglass Fen.
(c) Mortimer Douglas, ally of the Percy family.
(d) Scottish Clan Chief, Archibald, Earl of Douglass.

5. What is the King weary of at the beginning of the play?
(a) A lack of taxes.
(b) Attacks from France.
(c) Civil War.
(d) His son's disrespect.

6. What language does Glendower's daughter speak?
(a) Welsh.
(b) English.
(c) French.
(d) Scottish.

7. What is the name of Hotspur's castle?
(a) Westminster.
(b) Warkworth.
(c) Wellington.
(d) Warland.

8. What is Hybla?
(a) Parisian honey butter.
(b) Sicilian source of fine honey.
(c) Greek source of butter tarts.
(d) Romanian honey wine.

9. What is the full title of the play?
(a) The History of Henry the Fourth Part One.
(b) The Vaunted Life and Times of Henry.
(c) Henry IV, Section A.
(d) Henry King of England, Scots and Wales.

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

11. Hotspur refers to "Bolingbroke." Who does he mean?
(a) Prince Hal.
(b) King Henry IV.
(c) Himself.
(d) Worcester.

12. What Roman god does the King compare Hotspur to?
(a) Hercules.
(b) Mars.
(c) Diana.
(d) Venus.

13. Who attacks Falstaff after the robbery?
(a) Poins.
(b) Gadshill.
(c) Archibald.
(d) The Sheriff.

14. Who has made the arrangements for the robbery?
(a) Falstaff.
(b) Gadshill.
(c) Prince Hal.
(d) Chamberlain.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the carrier have in his hand at the beginning of Act 2?

2. Who is Poins?

3. Where does Hotspur's wife say she has been banished from?

4. Where does the first scene of the play take place?

5. Why do the carriers keep calling for the Ostler?

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