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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What else do they banter about?
(a) How much work needs to be done to the castle.
(b) How the peasants are in a uproar over new taxes.
(c) How difficult life is in Eleanor's prison/castle.
(d) How poor the crops are this season.

2. About what does John talk as he leaves?
(a) How Richard will make a poor king.
(b) How he is king again.
(c) How he is tired of waiting to learn if he will be king.
(d) How he wishes he could be king.

3. What does Eleanor ask Henry, regarding the Vexin?
(a) Where it is located.
(b) How much he is willing to pay for it.
(c) How large it is.
(d) How truly important it is to him.

4. What does Eleanor say to Alais?
(a) They should not be seen together.
(b) She does not like Alais.
(c) Tthey can talk behind Henry's back, briefly recounting what happened in Philip's bedroom.
(d) She does not want to talk about Henry behind his back.

5. When Richard responds with a pointed remark about Henry's being with Alais, of what does Eleanor remind him?
(a) She does not care what Henry does.
(b) Alais loves him.
(c) She raised Alais and cares for her a great deal.
(d) Alais is nothing to him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Henry want before he dies?

2. Why does Henry say this person should inherit the crown?

3. As Eleanor drinks her wine, what does she recall?

4. What does John admit to Henry?

5. What does Henry say about his two demands, for Alais' marriage or the return of the Vexin?

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