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

2. What does York warn Gaunt in Act 2, Scene 1?
(a) That Mowbray is going to try to kill him.
(b) That Bolingbroke is confronting very harsh conditions in his exile.
(c) That his wife is going to leave him.
(d) That Richard will ignore him.

3. What is Richard's reaction towards the news of Gaunt he receives in Act 1, Scene 4?
(a) He hopes Bolingbroke does not learn of the news, upsetting him in his exile.
(b) He hopes to seize Gaunt's property.
(c) He is devastated.
(d) He hopes to marry Gaunt's wife.

4. How many characters speak in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

5. Who is the first to speak in Act 2, Scene 1?
(a) Gaunt.
(b) York.
(c) Richard.
(d) Northumberland.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Gaunt alluding to have killed the Duke of Gloucester as he speaks alone with the Duchess?

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

3. What adjective does Richard use to describe Bolingbroke that is condescending?

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

5. What is the double metaphor spoken in the Duchess's first speech of the play?

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