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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 happens as the brothers bicker?
(a) Eleanor enters.
(b) Henry enters.
(c) Philip enters.
(d) John exits.

2. Why does Philip say he proclaimed his love for Richard?
(a) So he could one day torture Henry with the revelation of his son's deviant nature.
(b) Because he loves him.
(c) So he could become Richard's queen.
(d) So he could one day rule the kingdom.

3. What causes Richard to pull a dagger on John?
(a) John threatens him.
(b) John waves a dagger in Richard's face.
(c) John is scared of knives.
(d) John mocks him.

4. Henry says in the years Eleanor's been in prison he's surprised himself by discovering what?
(a) How sorry he is for locking her up.
(b) How sick he is of war.
(c) How much he misses her.
(d) How old she has become.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Henry speaks lovingly to Alais, and then as Eleanor watches, what does he do?

2. What is Eleanor doing in her chamber?

3. What does Henry say about Philip's plan to let the princes fight Henry instead of doing it himself?

4. With what does Eleanor enter?

5. How does Henry respond when Alais asks when it is safe to believe him?

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