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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where does York tell the men to meet him as he leaves Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) Buckingham Palace.
(b) Windsor Castle.
(c) Berkeley Castle.
(d) Ireland.

4. Who invites Bolingbroke to stay at Berkley Castle?
(a) Lord Berkley.
(b) York.
(c) Willoughby.
(d) Ross.

5. Who does the Duchess wish ill upon at the end of Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) Gaunt.
(b) Mowbray.
(c) Bolingbroke.
(d) Richard.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is Mowbray banished from England?

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

3. Where does Richard say he is to go immediately following Act 1, Scene 4?

4. Who says "What a tide of woes comes rushing on this woeful land at once!" in Act 2, Scene 2?

5. For whom does Richard reduce Bolingbroke's sentence?

(see the answer key)

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