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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the ostler do?
(a) Has the keys to all rooms in the Inn.
(b) Takes care of horses.
(c) Hustles up more business for the Inn.
(d) Brings in kegs of wine and ale.

2. What has Lady Percy been banished from?
(a) England.
(b) Her husband's bed.
(c) The front lines.
(d) The palace.

3. What news has Blunt?
(a) Time for peace has come.
(b) The rebels will meet them at Shrewsbury.
(c) Earl of Westmoreland has died.
(d) Bridgenorth has fallen to the rebels.

4. Who goes first to Shrewsbury?
(a) King Henry IV and his advisors.
(b) Prince of Wales and ten thousand men.
(c) Crowds of commoners who will watch the battle.
(d) Earl of Westmoreland and young Lord John of Lancaster.

5. How many of Mortimer's men are killed in the battle against Glendower?
(a) Countless hundreds.
(b) Ten.
(c) One thousand.
(d) Every single one of them.

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

7. Why is the council meeting?
(a) To plan the counter attack against France.
(b) To issue edicts against the rebels.
(c) To meet with Hotspur.
(d) European trade talks.

8. What are Hotspur and the rebels studying in Act 3, scene 1?
(a) Singing.
(b) Their wives.
(c) Welsh.
(d) A map.

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

10. What does the Prince of Wales say to his father upon his return to the Royal Court?
(a) Demands his due share of the kingdom.
(b) Promises to leave and never return.
(c) Apologizes for the offenses of his youth.
(d) Wants a wife given to him immediately.

11. Who is Phoebus?
(a) Falstaff's dresser.
(b) The hostess of the Tavern.
(c) Hal's uncle.
(d) The sun.

12. Who has the Prince lost the respect of according to the King?
(a) The People.
(b) The Court.
(c) The King.
(d) The Queen.

13. What does Falstaff like to drink?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Gin and Tonic.
(c) Sack.
(d) Hard cider.

14. Where does Hotspur's wife say she has been banished from?
(a) Her husband's heart.
(b) England.
(c) The kitchen.
(d) Her husband's bed.

15. Who is Lady Percy married to?
(a) The elderly Glendower.
(b) Percy Smith, the Vintner.
(c) King Henry IV.
(d) The young Henry Percy, Hotspur.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What job does Francis do?

3. What is a "franklin?"

4. When is Lady Percy to follow Hotspur when he leaves her?

5. What does Poins do when he slips away from Falstaff and Gadshill?

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