SparkNotes: Henry IV, Part 1: Quiz

1. At what tavern do Falstaff and friends congregate?

(A) The Boar’s Head

(B) The Sow’s Ear

(C) The Pearl & Swine

(D) The Ford of Sevens

2. Where does the final battle of the play take place?

(A) Falkirk

(B) Yorktown

(C) Shrewsbury

(D) Shropshire

3. Who was king before Henry IV?

(A) Richard III

(B) Richard II

(C) Henry III

(D) Edward III

4. Why does Harry say he is spending so much time with Falstaff?

(A) To learn the old man’s secrets of thievery

(B) To escape his father, whom he hates

(C) To trick Hotspur into thinking that he is a drunkard

(D) To lower expectations, so that when he chooses to act kingly, he will impress everyone all the more

5. Why does Kate confront Hotspur?

(A) He has not eaten well, slept well, or made love to her for two weeks

(B) He is plotting against her secret lover, Prince Harry

(C) He is having an affair with Mistress Quickly

(D) He prefers his horses to her

6. How do the Percys justify their rebellion?

(A) They say that Henry is a cruel and sadistic king

(B) They say that Henry has wasted the wealth of England fighting the Saracens

(C) They say that Henry attained the throne through witchcraft

(D) They say that Henry is ungrateful for the role they played in helping him seize the throne

7. In the battle, what does Falstaff carry in place of a pistol?

(A) A dagger

(B) A skin of wine

(C) A purse full of gold to bribe his enemies

(D) Nothing

8. Who kills Hotspur?

(A) Kate

(B) Falstaff

(C) King Henry

(D) Harry

9. Why does Henry decide to execute Worcester?

(A) He deviously chose not to convey Henry’s peace offering to Hotspur

(B) He stole Henry’s daughter and held her for ransom

(C) He is in league with France to overthrow England

(D) He is a Saracen

10. Approximately when was the play written?

(A) 1564

(B) 1582

(C) 1596

(D) 1612

11. What is Glyndwr’s nationality?

(A) Irish

(B) Welsh

(C) Scottish

(D) Saxon

12. What is the Douglas’s nationality?

(A) English

(B) Welsh

(C) French

(D) Scottish

13. To what family does Hotspur belong?

(A) Percy

(B) Woodville

(C) Lancaster

(D) Plantagenet

14. Who is John of Lancaster?

(A) Harry’s older brother

(B) Harry’s brother-in-law

(C) Harry’s younger brother

(D) Harry’s nephew

15. With whom does Harry trick Falstaff during the robbery?

(A) Hotspur

(B) Poins

(C) Bardolph

(D) Gadshill

16. Where did Gadshill get his name?

(A) From a church

(B) From a theater poster

(C) From the queen herself

(D) From a place where he has staged many robberies

17. How does Falstaff survive the battle?

(A) By fighting fiercely

(B) By playing dead

(C) By hiding underwater

(D) By fleeing to France

18. What is Falstaff’s favorite literary device?

(A) The mixed metaphor

(B) The metonym

(C) The pun

(D) Prosopopoeia

19. What is Falstaff’s first name?

(A) John

(B) James

(C) Joseph

(D) Jasper

20. Which captive does Hotspur wish to have released?

(A) Bolingbroke

(B) York

(C) Edmund of Norville

(D) Mortimer

21. How does the Archbishop of York feel about the king?

(A) He loves him as a brother

(B) He tolerates him, but only because Henry’s reign is so profitable to the church

(C) He pretends to love him while secretly hoping for the rebels to defeat him

(D) He is an active participant in the rebellion against the king

22. Why does Hotspur’s father say he will not go to battle?

(A) It cannot be won

(B) He is too sick

(C) He is wracked with grief over his wife’s suicide

(D) He has recently discovered that Henry is his cousin

23. How did Henry obtain the crown?

(A) He inherited it from his father

(B) He won it in a jousting tournament

(C) He took it in a revolution

(D) He was given it by the Archbishop of Canterbury after the death of Lord Hastings

24. Which of the following traits do Harry and Hotspur have in common?

(A) Age

(B) Love for Kate

(C) Quick temper

(D) Sexual promiscuity

25. Who kills Falstaff?

(A) Harry

(B) Hotspur

(C) The Douglas

(D) Falstaff does not die in the play