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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Gaunt's final line?
(a) "Convey me to my bed, then to my grave."
(b) "Love they to live that love and honour have."
(c) "Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee."
(d) "Words, life and all old Lancaster hath spent."

2. "What my tongue speaks my right drawn sword may prove." Who says this?
(a) Mowbray.
(b) Richard.
(c) Bolingbroke.
(d) Gaunt.

3. What do Bolingbroke and Mowbray accuse one another of?
(a) Treason.
(b) Kidnapping.
(c) Thief.
(d) Adultery.

4. What is the Duchess of Gloucester's purpose in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) She begs Gaunt to act humanely.
(b) She confesses that she did not love the Duke.
(c) She begs Gaunt to avenge her husband's death.
(d) She worries aloud about money.

5. Who announces Gaunt's death?
(a) Bushy.
(b) Richard.
(c) Northumberland.
(d) York.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Mowbray and Bolingbroke state officially that they are fighting for at the duel?

2. What made Aumerle cry when he said goodbye to Bolingbroke?

3. Who stops the duel as it begins?

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

5. How many characters speak in Act 1, Scene 2?

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