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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, Scene 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bolingbroke justify executing the prisoners?
(a) He says God tells him to do it.
(b) He says it is a favor to the Christian church.
(c) He knows they were both about to murder.
(d) He says it is a favor to the king.

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

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

4. "Though banish'd, yet a true born Englishman." Who says this quote?
(a) Mowbray.
(b) Lord Marshal.
(c) Gaunt.
(d) Bolingbroke.

5. Of which quality of Bolingbroke does Richard worry?
(a) His intelligence often outsmarted Richard in their youth.
(b) He is gracious to and loved by the common people.
(c) Bolingbroke is much stronger than Richard.
(d) Bolingbroke is always able to persuade people to take his side.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who of the following is not a character in Act 2, Scene 3?

3. Who is the first to speak in Act 2, Scene 3?

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

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

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