1. Henry IV, Part 1 is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written no later than 1597. It is the second play in Shakespeare's tetralogy dealing with the successive reigns of , Henry IV (two plays, including Henry IV, Part 2) Henry V and_____?
A: ) Richard I
B: ) Richard III
C: ) Richard II
D: ) Henry III
springline- Correct option: C:) Richard II
2. Henry IV, Part 1 depicts a span of history that begins with Hotspur's battle at Homildon in Northumberland against Douglas late in 1402 and ends with the defeat of the rebels at Shrewsbury in the middle of ____?
A: ) 1402
B: ) 1403
C: ) 1404
D: ) 1406
springline- Correct option: D:) 1406
3. Henry Bolingbroke—now King Henry IV—is having an unquiet reign. His personal disquiet at the usurpation of his predecessor Richard II would be solved by a crusade to the Holy Land, but trouble on his borders with Scotland and Wales make leaving unwise. Moreover, he is increasingly at odds with the family of____?
A: ) Earl of March
B: ) Percy
C: ) Bardolph
D: ) Earl of Westmorland
springline- Correct option: B:) Percy
4. Henry IV, Part 1: Adding to King Henry's troubles is the behaviour of his son and heir, the Prince of Wales. Hal (the future Henry V) has forsaken the Royal Court to waste his time in taverns with low companions. This makes him an object of scorn to the nobles and calls into question his royal worthiness. Hal's chief friend and foil in living the low life is ____?
A: ) Sir John Falstaff
B: ) Hotspur Percy
C: ) Sir Richard Vernon
D: ) Kate Percy
springline- Correct option: A:) Sir John Falstaff
5. Henry IV, Part 1: The play features three groups of characters .First there is King Henry himself and his immediate council. Next there is the group of rebels, energetically embodied in Harry Percy (‘Hotspur’) and including his father, the Earl of Northumberland and led by his uncle Thomas Percy and_____?
A: ) Earl of Westmorland
B: ) Earl of March
C: ) Earl of Worcester
D: ) Sir Walter Blunt
springline- Correct option: C:) Earl of Worcester
6. Henry IV, Part 1: The Scottish Earl of Douglas, Edmund Mortimer and the Welshman Owen Glendower also join. Finally, at the centre of the play are the young Prince Hal and his companions Falstaff, Poins, Bardolph, and Peto. Streetwise and pound-foolish, these rogues manage to paint over this grim history in the colours of ___?
A: ) Comedy
B: ) Tragedy
C: ) Romance
D: ) Romantic Tragedy
springline- Correct option: A:) Comedy
7. Henry IV, Part 1: As the play opens, the king is angry with Hotspur for refusing him most of the prisoners taken in a recent action against the Scots at Holmedon. Hotspur, for his part, would have the king ransom Edmund Mortimer (his wife's brother) from Owen Glendower, the Welshman who holds him. Who refuses, berates Mortimer's loyalty, and treats the Percys with threats and rudeness ?
A: ) Kate Percy
B: ) Henry
C: ) Thomas Percy
D: ) Henry IV
springline- Correct option: B:) Henry
8. Henry's son Hal is joking, drinking, and thieving with Falstaff and his associates. He likes Falstaff but makes no pretense at being like him. He enjoys insulting his dissolute friend and makes sport of him by joining in Poins' plot to disguise themselves and rob and terrify Falstaff and ____?
A: ) Sir Walter
B: ) Hal
C: ) three friends
D: ) two friends
springline- Correct option: C:) three friends
9. Henry IV, Part 1: The revolt of Mortimer and the Percys very quickly gives him his chance to do just that. The high and the low come together when the Prince makes up with his father and is given a high command. He vows to fight and kill the rebel Hotspur, and orders, Who to take charge of a group of foot soldiers and proceed to the battle site at Shrewsbury?
A: ) Prince of Wales
B: ) Earl of Westmorland
C: ) Earl of March
D: ) Falstaff
springline- Correct option: D:) Falstaff
10. Henry IV, Part 1: The battle is crucial because if the rebels even achieve a standoff their cause gains greatly, as they have other powers awaiting under Northumberland, Glendower, and the Archbishop of York and_____?
A: ) Mortimer
B: ) Traveler
C: ) Francis
D: ) Sir Michael
springline- Correct option: A:) Mortimer
11. Henry IV, Part 1:Shakespeare's primary source for Henry IV, Part 1, as for most of his chronicle histories, was the second edition (1587) of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles, which in turn drew on Edward Hall's The Union of the Two Illustrious Families of Lancaster and York. Scholars have also assumed that Shakespeare was familiar with Whose poem on the civil wars ?
A: ) Walt Whitman
B: ) Samuel Daniel
C: ) Henry Timrod
D: ) Frances Harper
springline- Correct option: B:) Samuel Daniel
12. Henry IV part I, was almost certainly in performance by 1597, given the wealth of allusions and references to the Falstaff character. The earliest recorded performance occurred on the afternoon of 6 March 1600, when the play was acted at court before the Flemish Ambassador. Other court performances followed in 1612 and ______?
A: ) 1624
B: ) 1625
C: ) 1627
D: ) 1621
springline- Correct option: B:) 1625
13. Henry IV, Part 1: The Dering Manuscript, the earliest extant manuscript text of any Shakespeare play, provides a single-play version of both Part 1 and Part 2 of Henry IV. The play was entered into the Register of the Stationers Company on 25 Feb _____?
A: ) 1597
B: ) 1598
C: ) 1599
D: ) 1600
springline- Correct option: B:) 1598
14. Henry IV, Part 1: At its first publication in 1597 or 1598 the play was titled The History of Henrie the Fourth and its title page advertised only the presence of Henry Percy and the comic Sir John Falstaff. Indeed, throughout most of the play's performance history, Who was staged as a secondary figure, and the stars of the stage, beginning with James Quin and David Garrick often preferred to play Hotspur ?
A: ) Falstaff
B: ) Hal
C: ) Richard Vernon
D: ) Worcester
springline- Correct option: B:) Hal
15. Henry IV, Part 1: Many readers interpret the history as a tale of Prince Hal growing up, evolving into King Henry V, perhaps the most heroic of all of Shakespeare's characters, in what is a tale of the prodigal son adapted to the politics of medieval England. The low proportion of scenes featuring the title character, the king, has also been noted, with some authors suggesting that the play contrasts the authority of ________?
A: ) Henry II
B: ) Richard I
C: ) Henry IV
D: ) Prince of Wales
springline- Correct option: C:) Henry IV
16. Henry IV, Part 1 caused controversy on its first performances in 1597, because the comic character now known as Who was originally named ‘Oldcastle’ and was based on John Oldcastle, a famous proto-Protestant martyr with powerful living descendants in England ?
A: ) Bardolph
B: ) Hotspur Percy
C: ) Lady Mortimer
D: ) Sir John Falstaff
springline- Correct option: D:) Sir John Falstaff
17. Which verse line in Henry IV, Part 1 is irregular when using the name ‘Falstaff’, but regular with ‘Oldcastle’. Finally, there is the explicit disclaimer at the close of Henry IV, Part 2 that discriminates between the two figures: ‘for Oldcastle died martyr, and this is not the man’ (Epilogue, 29–32) ?
A: ) blank verse
B: ) dramatic monologue
C: ) iambic tetrameter
D: ) iambic pentameter
springline- Correct option: D:) iambic pentameter
18. Although the character is called Falstaff in all surviving texts of the play, there is abundant external and internal evidence that he was originally called Oldcastle. The change of names is mentioned in seventeenth-century works by Richard James (‘Epistle to Sir Harry Bourchier’, c. 1625) and ________?
A: ) Andrew Marvell
B: ) Thomas Fuller
C: ) Jonathan Swift
D: ) John Bunyan
springline- Correct option: B:) Thomas Fuller
19. Henry IV, Part 1: The Welsh rebel Owain Glyndwr’s son-in-law. Mortimer is a conflation of two separate historical figures: Mortimer and the Earl of March. For Shakespeare’s purposes, Mortimer matters because he had a strong claim to the throne of England before King Henry overthrew the previous king______?
A: ) Richard I
B: ) Charles I
C: ) Richard II
D: ) Richard III
springline- Correct option: C:) Richard II
20. Henry IV, Part 1: The leader of the large army of Scottish rebels against King Henry. Usually called ‘The Douglas’ (a traditional way of referring to a Scottish clan chief), the deadly and fearless Douglas fights on the side of the Percys. Whose given name is Richard Scrope, has a grievance against King Henry and thus conspires on the side of the Percys ?
A: ) Ned Poins
B: ) Worcester
C: ) The archbishop
D: ) Earl of Westmorland
springline- Correct option: C:) The archbishop
21. Henry IV, Part 1: The elder Lord Cobham even had a strong negative impact upon the lives of Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the theatre. The company of actors formed by Shakespeare, Richard Burbage, Will Kempe and the others in 1594 enjoyed the patronage of Henry Carey, first Lord Hunsdon, then serving as ____?
A: ) Lord Chamberlain
B: ) Duncan
C: ) Earl of March
D: ) Earl of Northumberland
springline- Correct option: A:) Lord Chamberlain
22. In the royal palace of London, King Henry IV of England speaks with his counselors. Worn out by the recent civil wars that have wracked his country, Henry looks forward to a project he has been planning for a long time: joining in the Crusades. He plans to lead a military expedition to____?
A: ) Bethlehem
B: ) Jerusalem
C: ) Scotland
D: ) Ireland
springline- Correct option: B:) Jerusalem
23. The king’s trusted advisor, the Earl of West-moreland, relays the bad news that Edmund Mortimer, an English military leader, has lost a battle against a band of guerrilla fighters in Wales, who are led by the powerful and mysterious Welsh rebel Owain Glyndwr. Glyndwr has captured ______?
A: ) Chamberlain
B: ) Kate Percy
C: ) Sir Walter Blunt
D: ) Lady Mortimer
springline- Correct option: D:) Lady Mortimer
24. From the other English border, Westmoreland adds, he has just received information that young Harry Percy, nicknamed Hotspur, another of the king’s best military men, is currently engaged in heated battle with Archibald, also known as ____?
A: ) Chamberlain
B: ) the Douglas
C: ) the Hostess
D: ) Earl of March
springline- Correct option: B:) the Douglas
25. Who is however, is behaving very strangely and he has sent word to King Henry that he plans to send only one of his prisoners (Mordake) to the king and retain the rest and This action flouts standard procedure, as the king has an automatic right to all noble prisoners captured in battle ?
A: ) Hotspur
B: ) Ostler
C: ) Thomas Percy
D: ) Richard Vernon
springline- Correct option: A:) Hotspur
26. Shakespeare produced most of his known works between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best work produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until the year of_____?
A: ) 1604
B: ) 1605
C: ) 1608
D: ) 1610
springline- Correct option: C:) 1608
27. In Shakespeare's day, English grammar, spelling, and pronunciation were less standardised than they are now, and his use of language helped shape modern English. Samuel Johnson quoted him more often than any other author in his A Dictionary of the English Language, the first serious work of its type. Shakespeare influenced novelists such as William Faulkner, Charles Dickens and_____?
A: ) Daniel Defoe
B: ) Joseph Conrad
C: ) Henry Fielding
D: ) Thomas Hardy
springline- Correct option: D:) Thomas Hardy
28. Shakespeare has also inspired many painters, including the Romantics and the Pre-Raphaelites. The Swiss Romantic artist Henry Fuseli, a friend of William Blake, even translated Macbeth into German. The psychoanalyst Who drew on Shakespearean psychology, in particular, that of Hamlet, for his theories of human nature ?
A: ) I.A. Richards
B: ) Harold Pinter
C: ) Sigmund Freud
D: ) Derrick
springline- Correct option: C:) Derrick
29. In 1623, John Heminges and Henry Condell, two of Shakespeare's friends from the King's Men, published the First Folio, a collected edition of Shakespeare's plays. It contained 36 texts, including 18 printed for the first time. Many of the plays had already appeared in quarto versions—flimsy books made from sheets of paper folded twice to make?
A: ) four leaves
B: ) three leaves
C: ) five leaves
D: ) six leaves
springline- Correct option: A:) four leaves
30. The lyrical work of Richard II, written almost entirely in verse, Shakespeare introduced prose comedy into the histories of the late 1590s, Henry IV, parts 1 and 2, and Henry V. His characters become more complex and tender as he switches deftly between comic and serious scenes, prose and poetry, and achieves the narrative variety of his mature work. This period begins and ends with ____?
A: ) two comedies
B: ) three comedies
C: ) two tragedies
D: ) three tragedies
springline- Correct option: C:) three tragedies