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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which is the final line of Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) "To God, the widow's champion and defence."
(b) "The last leave of thee takes my weeping eye."
(c) "As much good stay with thee as go with me."
(d) "Desolate, desolate will I hence and die."

2. "Though banish'd, yet a true born Englishman." Who says this quote?
(a) Bolingbroke.
(b) Gaunt.
(c) Lord Marshal.
(d) Mowbray.

3. What is the double metaphor spoken in the Duchess's first speech of the play?
(a) Vials of blood; branches from one root.
(b) Rose petals; a dagger dripping blood.
(c) Doves flying; a harp playing angel.
(d) A crying baby; nurses working corruptly.

4. What do Mowbray and Bolingbroke state officially that they are fighting for at the duel?
(a) Both claim the other is a traitor.
(b) Both love the same woman.
(c) Both claim the other killed the Duke of Gloucester.
(d) Mowbray claims adultery while Bolingbroke claims theft.

5. How does Gaunt try to persuade Bolingbroke to think of his banishment?
(a) As a time to find a wife.
(b) As a pleasurable journey.
(c) As his civic duty.
(d) As a time to grow as a man.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Woodstock?

2. Where is Gaunt to go after Act 1, Scene 2?

3. Who does Mowbray admit to have scheming against in the past?

4. Why is Richard confused about Gaunt's reaction towards Bolingbroke's sentence?

5. Where was the setting for Act 1, Scene 1?

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