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

2. What is Bolingbroke's banishment reduced to?
(a) Fifteen years.
(b) Twenty years.
(c) Ten years.
(d) Six years.

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

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

5. Who is the first character to speak in Act 1, Scene 1?
(a) Mowbray.
(b) Richard.
(c) Gaunt.
(d) Bolingbroke

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first to speak in Act 1, Scene 4?

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

3. Why don't Bolingbroke and Mowbray forgive one another?

4. Who was Richard's uncle and Gaunt's brother?

5. How are Gaunt and Bolingbroke related?

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