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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pistol plan to do for a living now that he no longer has Nell to support him?
(a) Find another woman to support him.
(b) Become a thief.
(c) Go work on a farm.
(d) Return to the army and help defend the border with Scotland.

2. What suggestion from various lords does Henry refuse because he does not have the vanity or pride to do so?
(a) Declare a national holiday in his name.
(b) Have a major street in London renamed for him.
(c) Ride in a parade with his battle-scarred helmet and sword.
(d) Have a statue of himself made.

3. What does Pistol say has happened to Doll (Nell) that suggests she may have been unfaithful to him?
(a) She gave birth to a baby ten months after he left.
(b) She died of a sexually-transmitted disease.
(c) She has filed for divorce and another man is living in her house.
(d) She has mysteriously obtained a lot of expensive clothes and jewelry.

4. What strategic structure does Fluellen say is being protected by the Duke of Exeter and Pistol?
(a) A bridge.
(b) A fort.
(c) A city wall.
(d) A pier.

5. What is the "capital demand" in the articles of peace that Henry mentions to Queen Isabel?
(a) The French king's crown and all his powers.
(b) A formal apology from the Dauphin.
(c) Two-thirds of all France's tax revenues.
(d) Katherine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following tool do the armorers use to close the rivets on the knights' armor?

2. Why is the constable confident that they will be able to defeat the English?

3. What does Henry say is the meaning of the alarm that sounds as he and Exeter are speaking?

4. Where does the messenger say the English are when he reports to the constable?

5. Finish Orleans' line, "Is this the king we sent . . . "

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the French soldiers feel so ashamed during the battle?

2. What is the basis of the quarrel between Henry, who is in disguise, and Williams?

3. When Henry is in disguise walking among his men, how does he talk about himself?

4. What does Bourbon declare must be done rather than live with the shame of losing to the English?

5. Describe the death toll of the battle of Agincourt. For example, were the losses lopsided or did both sides suffer fairly equally? How are the dead accounted for in terms of class and social status?

6. What is Henry's reasoning for wanting to go forward with Bardolph's execution?

7. Explain why Henry's post-war stay in England is cut short.

8. Describe England's celebratory mood as Henry and his army return home from France.

9. Describe the exchange between Pistol and the French soldier that the boy is called upon to serve as interpreter.

10. Explain what Henry tells Fluellen to do when he gives him Williams' glove.

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