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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. Who is at Bristow Castle in Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) The Duke of Aumerle.
(b) The Earl of Wiltshire.
(c) Abbot of Westminster.
(d) Earl of Salisbury.

2. Who is the first to speak in Act 1, Scene 4?
(a) Bagot.
(b) Lord Aumerle.
(c) Richard.
(d) Green.

3. Who are the first characters to enter Act 1, Scene 3?
(a) Gaunt, the Duchess of Gloucester.
(b) Lord Marshall, the Duke Aumerle.
(c) Richard, the Queen.
(d) Gaunt, Bolingbroke.

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

5. Which of the following lines is what the Queen says to the bearer of the news of Bolingbroke?
(a) "There is no higher evil than Bolingbroke."
(b) "Your news feels of demons ripping my inside."
(c) "Thou art the midwife to my woe."
(d) "What right have you to deliver such agony to the Queen?"

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Northumberland, Ross, and Willoughby discuss after Richard leaves Act 2, Scene 1?

2. Where is the setting of Act 1, Scene 2?

3. Who is the last character to speak in Act 2, Scene 1?

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

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

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