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Henry IV, Part 1 - Quiz
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  • 1. In what year did Henry IV, Part 1 first cause controversy?
A) 1986
B) 1596
C) 1600
D) 1597
  • 2. What was the original name of the comic character now known as Falstaff?
A) Cobham
B) Mowbray
C) Fastolf
D) Oldcastle
  • 3. Who was the historical figure that the original name of Falstaff was based on?
A) Sir John Fastolf
B) Thomas Mowbray
C) John Oldcastle
D) William Brooke
  • 4. What was John Oldcastle considered to be?
A) A cowardly knight
B) A theatrical manager
C) A Lord Chamberlain
D) A proto-Protestant martyr
  • 5. Who mentioned the change of names in the seventeenth-century work 'Epistle to Sir Harry Bourchier'?
A) George Carey
B) Richard James
C) Thomas Fuller
D) Thomas Nashe
  • 6. Who mentioned the change of names in 'Worthies of England' (1662)?
A) Thomas Fuller
B) Richard James
C) Thomas Nashe
D) Henry Carey
  • 7. In which play's quarto text (1600) was a speech prefix mistakenly left uncorrected as 'Old.'?
A) Henry IV, Part 1
B) The Merry Wives of Windsor
C) Henry IV, Part 2
D) Henry VI, Part 1
  • 8. According to Henry IV, Part 2, III, ii, 25-6, Falstaff had been a page to which historical figure?
A) Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk
B) William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham
C) Henry Carey, 1st Lord Hunsdon
D) Sir John Fastolf
  • 9. What does Prince Hal call Falstaff in Henry IV, Part 1, I, ii, 42?
A) My sweet creature of bombast
B) My brave Lord Cobham
C) My old lad of the castle
D) My cowardly knight
  • 10. Which verse line in Henry IV, Part 1 is irregular when using the name 'Falstaff', but regular with the original name?
A) A trochaic tetrameter verse line
B) An anapestic trimeter verse line
C) A spondaic hexameter verse line
D) An iambic pentameter verse line
  • 11. Where does the explicit disclaimer discriminating between Oldcastle and Falstaff appear?
A) Henry IV, Part 2 Epilogue
B) Henry IV, Part 1 Epilogue
C) The Merry Wives of Windsor Act V
D) Sir John Oldcastle Act I
  • 12. What are the line numbers for the Epilogue disclaimer in Henry IV, Part 2?
A) 1–4
B) 85–90
C) 29–32
D) 25–28
  • 13. Besides the two parts of Henry IV, which other play contains the character of Falstaff?
A) Henry VI, Part 1
B) Sir John Oldcastle
C) The Merry Wives of Windsor
D) Henry V
  • 14. In The Merry Wives of Windsor, what letter does Falstaff call out when his fingertips are singed?
A) F
B) C
C) H
D) O
  • 15. Who were the powerful living descendants of John Oldcastle in Elizabethan England?
A) The Lords Bourchier
B) The Lords Mowbray
C) The Lords Cobham
D) The Lords Hunsdon
  • 16. Who was the 10th Baron Cobham who died on 6 March 1597?
A) George Carey
B) Henry Carey
C) William Brooke
D) Henry Brooke
  • 17. Who was Frances Brooke to the 11th Baron Cobham?
A) His wife
B) His mother
C) His sister
D) His daughter
  • 18. Whose close personal favourite was Frances Brooke, the 10th Baron's wife?
A) Queen Elizabeth I
B) Queen Mary I
C) Queen Anne
D) Lady Jane Grey
  • 19. What acting company was formed in 1594 and included Shakespeare?
A) The Lord Chamberlain's Men
B) The Earl of Oxford's Boys
C) The Admiral's Men
D) The King's Men
  • 20. Whose patronage did the Lord Chamberlain's Men initially enjoy?
A) Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham
B) William Brooke, Lord Cobham
C) Sir John Fastolf
D) Henry Carey, first Lord Hunsdon
  • 21. On what date did Henry Carey, first Lord Hunsdon, die?
A) 6 March 1597
B) 6 March 1600
C) 22 July 1596
D) 22 July 1594
  • 22. Who received the post of Lord Chamberlain after Henry Carey died in 1596?
A) George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon
B) Sir Harry Bourchier
C) William Brooke, Lord Cobham
D) Thomas Mowbray
  • 23. Which local officials wanted to drive the acting companies out of the city of London?
A) The Wardens of the Cinque Ports
B) The Knights of the Garter
C) The Lord Mayor and the aldermen
D) The Privy Council
  • 24. Which contemporary writer complained in a letter that actors were 'piteously persecuted'?
A) Thomas Fuller
B) William Shakespeare
C) Thomas Nashe
D) Richard James
  • 25. Who became Lord Chamberlain after William Brooke, Lord Cobham died?
A) Sir Harry Bourchier
B) Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham
C) George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon
D) Henry Carey, 1st Lord Hunsdon
  • 26. Who was the new name 'Falstaff' based upon?
A) Thomas Mowbray
B) John Oldcastle
C) William Brooke
D) Sir John Fastolf
  • 27. For what trait was the historical Sir John Fastolf known?
A) Patronage of actors in London
B) Martyrdom for Protestantism
C) Cowardice at the Battle of Patay
D) Loyalty as a page to Mowbray
  • 28. In which earlier play had Shakespeare previously represented Sir John Fastolf?
A) Henry V
B) Henry IV, Part 2
C) The Merry Wives of Windsor
D) Henry VI, Part 1
  • 29. Why was Sir John Fastolf considered safe for a playwright's use?
A) He had died without descendants
B) He was a close favourite of Queen Elizabeth I
C) He was a beloved national hero
D) He was the Lord Chamberlain
  • 30. What was the title of the two-part play written shortly afterward by a team of playwrights presenting a heroic dramatisation of Oldcastle's life?
A) Sir John Oldcastle
B) Worthies of England
C) Epistle to Sir Harry Bourchier
D) The Merry Wives of Windsor
  • 31. In what year was the play 'Sir John Oldcastle' published?
A) 1600
B) 1986
C) 1597
D) 1625
  • 32. Which edition of Shakespeare's works rendered the character's name as Oldcastle in Henry IV, Part 1 in 1986?
A) The Quarto of Henry IV, Part 2
B) The First Folio
C) The Oxford Shakespeare
D) Worthies of England
  • 33. From which play and scene is the famous Sherlock Holmes catchphrase 'The game is afoot' taken?
A) Henry IV, Part 1, Act I, Scene 3
B) Henry IV, Part 2, Act I, Scene 2
C) The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act V, Scene 5
D) Henry V, Act III, Scene 1
  • 34. Which character speaks the line containing 'The game is afoot' in Henry IV, Part 1?
A) The Earl of Northumberland
B) Falstaff
C) Prince Hal
D) Thomas Mowbray
  • 35. What is the line number for 'The game is afoot' in Henry IV, Part 1, Act I, Scene 3?
A) 615
B) 25
C) 85
D) 42
  • 36. In Henry V, who uses the phrase 'The game's afoot'?
A) Falstaff
B) The title character (Henry V)
C) The Earl of Northumberland
D) Thomas Mowbray
  • 37. In which act and scene of Henry V does the title character say 'The game's afoot'?
A) Act I, Scene 2
B) Act I, Scene 3
C) Act III, Scene 1
D) Act V, Scene 5
  • 38. What animals are the soldiers compared to in Henry V, Act III, Scene 1?
A) Lions in the field
B) Wild boars in the forest
C) Steeds at the starting gate
D) Greyhounds in the slips
  • 39. What battle is associated with Sir John Fastolf's historical reputation for cowardice?
A) The Battle of Shrewsbury
B) The Battle of Agincourt
C) The Battle of Bosworth Field
D) The Battle of Patay
  • 40. Who served as Warden of the Cinque Ports from 1558 to 1597?
A) Henry Carey, 1st Lord Hunsdon
B) Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham
C) George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon
D) William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham
  • 41. When was Henry IV, Part 1 probably written?
A) Early 1600s
B) Mid-1620s
C) Mid-1590s
D) Late 1580s
  • 42. In what year was Henry IV, Part 1 first published in quarto?
A) 1592
B) 1603
C) 1616
D) 1598
  • 43. When is the play set?
A) Early 1400s
B) Late 1400s
C) Late 1300s
D) Early 1500s
  • 44. What is Harry Percy commonly called?
A) Hotspur
B) Mortimer
C) Prince Hal
D) Bolingbroke
  • 45. Who is the Welsh rebel that joins the uprising?
A) Bardolph
B) Richard II
C) Edmund Mortimer
D) Owen Glendower
  • 46. Who was Richard II's chosen heir that joins the rebel alliance?
A) Thomas Percy
B) John Falstaff
C) Harry Percy
D) Edmund Mortimer
  • 47. What would have solved Henry IV's personal disquiet regarding his usurpation?
A) A crusade to the Holy Land
B) The execution of the Percys
C) A royal marriage alliance
D) A treaty with France
  • 48. Where does Prince Hal spend most of his time instead of the royal court?
A) Military training camps
B) A monastery in Wales
C) Taverns with lowborn companions
D) The Scottish border
  • 49. What is the name of the tavern where Hal meets Falstaff and his associates?
A) Red Lion Inn
B) Boar's Head Tavern
C) The Crown and Anchor
D) The White Hart
  • 50. Who helps Hal carry out a plot to rob Falstaff after a highway robbery?
A) Bardolph
B) Peto
C) Poins
D) Hotspur
  • 51. Who hunts the King during the Battle of Shrewsbury?
A) Hotspur
B) Douglas
C) Glendower
D) Worcester
  • 52. Who kills Hotspur in single combat?
A) King Henry IV
B) Poins
C) Sir John Falstaff
D) Prince Hal
  • 53. What does Falstaff do to avoid an attack by Douglas during the battle?
A) Surrenders immediately
B) Dishonourably feigns death
C) Hides inside a tavern
D) Flee the battlefield on a fast horse
  • 54. Before whom was the play acted at court during its earliest recorded performance?
A) The Flemish Ambassador
B) Queen Elizabeth I
C) The French Ambassador
D) King James I
  • 55. Who first printed the play in quarto later in 1598?
A) William Shakespeare
B) Edward Dering
C) The Flemish Ambassador
D) Andrew Wise
  • 56. For what purpose might Edward Dering have prepared the redaction?
A) Family or amateur theatrics
B) A professional performance at court
C) An official state archive
D) Publication by Andrew Wise
  • 57. Who prepared the Dering Manuscript redaction according to scholarly consensus?
A) William Shakespeare
B) Andrew Wise
C) The Flemish Ambassador
D) Edward Dering
  • 58. Where was the Dering Manuscript discovered?
A) Surrenden Manor, Pluckley, Kent
B) At court before the Flemish Ambassador
C) The Stationers Company Register
D) The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
  • 59. What is the modern designation for the tetralogy of plays dealing with Richard II, Henry IV, and Henry V?
A) The Crown Chronicles
B) The Lancaster Cycle
C) The Henriad
D) The Shakespearean Tetralogy
  • 60. What traditional story form is Hal's evolution into King Henry V often compared to?
A) The prodigal son
B) The tragedy of ambition
C) The hero's journey
D) The fall of man
  • 61. In Act 5 Scene 1, what is the name of the soliloquy delivered by Falstaff that addresses war and honour?
A) The Soldier's Oath
B) The Honour Soliloquy
C) Falstaff's Catechism
D) The Tavern Philosophy
  • 62. To what does Falstaff ultimately reduce the concept of honour in his soliloquy?
A) Glory
B) Blood
C) Gold
D) Air
  • 63. How does Falstaff describe honour at the end of his catechism?
A) A mere scutcheon
B) A golden crown
C) A noble pursuit
D) A heavy burden
  • 64. Who drew parallels between Falstaff's catechism and Philippe de Mornay’s 1582 treatise?
A) David Garrick
B) William Shakespeare
C) James Quin
D) Professor Clifford Davidson
  • 65. What is the title of Philippe de Mornay’s 1582 treatise mentioned in the text?
A) De la verité de la religion chrestienne
B) The Prince
C) De Monarchia
D) Utopia
  • 66. What does de Mornay's passage compare honour to, using language similar to Falstaff's?
A) Fire
B) Wind
C) Earth
D) Water
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