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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Hostess Quickly determine that Falstaff was near death?
(a) His breathing stopped.
(b) He turned blue.
(c) His body felt cold.
(d) He was unresponsive.

2. The chorus compares England's response to the war to a person with a "little body" and __________.
(a) A mighty heart.
(b) An even smaller brain.
(c) A strong stomach.
(d) The temper of a woman.

3. What does Henry tell Exeter to do with Harfleur?
(a) Force out all the residents and tell the troops to set up camp there.
(b) Fortify it against the French and be merciful to the people.
(c) Burn it to the ground.
(d) Confiscate anything of value.

4. How are Exeter and Westmoreland related to King Henry?
(a) Exeter is his brother and Westmoreland is his son.
(b) Exeter is his nephew and Westmoreland is his uncle.
(c) Exeter is his uncle and Westmoreland is his cousin.
(d) Exeter is his cousin and Westmoreland is his nephew.

5. Sir Thomas Grey tells King Henry that those who were his father's enemies now do what?
(a) Rot in the prison graveyard.
(b) Serve the king.
(c) Hate the king even more than they hated his father.
(d) Fear the king.

6. What does the chorus say must "deck our kings"?
(a) The audience's thoughts.
(b) Royal servants.
(c) Stage hands.
(d) Queens.

7. What is the battle cry Henry gives his men?
(a) God have mercy because we will not!
(b) Huzzah!
(c) God for Harry, England, and Saint George!
(d) Pour le Roi et pour la France!

8. In what city does Act 1, Scene 1 take place?
(a) Harfleur.
(b) Canterbury.
(c) London.
(d) Paris.

9. What words from Henry's speech at Harfleur does Bardolph repeat to the others in his group?
(a) Teach them how to war.
(b) On, to the breach.
(c) The game's afoot.
(d) Dishonor not your mother.

10. What does Canterbury say Henry had once been addicted to?
(a) Ale.
(b) Courses vain.
(c) Sot weed.
(d) Lusty wenches.

11. Which character from classical mythology does the chorus say fans the streamers of the brave fleet?
(a) Phoebus.
(b) Proteus.
(c) Phaeton.
(d) Phobos.

12. Dauphin tells the French king that they should show no more fear of England than if that country were busy with __________.
(a) A Whitsun morris-dance.
(b) Women in a bawdy house.
(c) Attending a play.
(d) Bear baiting.

13. Canterbury tells King Henry that Salic is not part of France, but of _________.
(a) Germany.
(b) Spain.
(c) Scotland.
(d) England.

14. What does King Henry tell Exeter to do with the drunken man who had railed against him the day before?
(a) Execute him.
(b) Pardon him.
(c) Offer him a position at court.
(d) Put him in the stocks in the town square.

15. Why does Katherine think Alice speaks English well?
(a) Alice had once been married to an English man.
(b) Alice's previous job had been working for an English family.
(c) Alice has been to England.
(d) Alice's mother is English.

Short Answer Questions

1. Henry states that during peacetime, nothing is more becoming to a man than __________.

2. In the Prologue, what term does the chorus use to describe King Henry?

3. What does the king of France instruct the Dauphin to do?

4. On what does Hostess Quickly blame Sir John's illness?

5. What gift of athletic equipment, intended to be taken as an insult, does the Dauphin send King Henry?

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