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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Gadshill's second man?

2. What does the Prince do when he slips away from Falstaff and Gadshill?

3. What are Hotspur and the rebels studying in Act 3, scene 1?

4. What do the carriers have?

5. What was Hotspur doing when he was approached by a well-dressed man on the battlefield?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the letter Hotspur is reading in Act 2, Scene 3?

2. What does Falstaff do when he stops pretending to be dead?

3. What does Worcester tell young Hotspur when he returns from his conversation in the King's camp?

4. Why does Prince Hal say that he has Shirley, Stafford and Blunt in his arms as he fights Douglas?

5. What is Prince Hal's thinking in terms of his eventual return to court life?

6. Where does Act IV, Scene 1 take place?

7. How does Vernon describe the King's army and the Prince of Wales?

8. What does Gadshill ask when he enters the stage at the beginning of Act 2?

9. What does Hotspur suspect the King's ulterior motive is in not releasing Mortimer?

10. Who are the characters in Act II, Scene 1 in the yard outside the inn?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the overall history that this play is fitting in? Generally four of the history plays are put together, Richard II, Henry IV, part 1, Henry IV part 2, Henry V. Lay out the history of the forces which clashes through these years of English royal history. Who are the major families involved?

Essay Topic 2

Some scholars have written that in Richard II divine right to rule dies. Henry IV takes that right when he murders Richard II. They go on to say that in this play honor dies. Hotspur is the embodiment of honor. Discuss this and relate the death of honor to this overall theme and action of this play.

Essay Topic 3

What role does symbolism play in the story and where does it appear? How is the plot altered by the presence of these symbols?

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