SparkNotes: Richard III: Quiz

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1. Whom does Richard blame for Clarence’s murder?

(A) Buckingham

(B) Hastings

(D) King Edward

2. Who arranges the murders of the princes on Richard’s behalf?

(A) Buckingham

(B) Tyrrell

(D) Clarence

3. How many kings does England have during the play?

(A) Three

(B) Two

(D) Zero

4. What dignitary is involved in Richard’s scheme to be crowned king?

(A) The high chamberlain

(B) The grand vizier

(D) The cardinal

5. To which house does Richard belong?

(A) York

(B) Lancaster

(D) Plantagenet

6. Which of the following characters is not one of Queen Elizabeth’s kinsmen?

(A) Dorset

(B) Rivers

(D) Tyrrell

7. Which character does Richard hope to marry in Act IV?

(A) Anne

(B) Young Elizabeth

(D) The duchess

8. On whom does Richard blame his deformed arm?

(A) Hastings’s mistress and Queen Elizabeth

(B) Lady Anne

(D) Richmond

9. Why is it strange that Lady Anne would agree to marry Richard?

(A) Richard was previously married to Lady Anne’s sister

(B) Richard killed Lady Anne’s sister

(D) All of the above

10. What is Richmond’s name after he becomes king?

(A) Henry VII

(B) Henry VIII

(D) Sir Thomas More

11. What is Richard’s heraldic emblem?

(A) The black rose

(B) The unicorn

(D) The boar

12. Who delivers the curses that foreshadow many of the main characters’ eventual fates?

(A) Queen Elizabeth

(B) Margaret

(D) The Witch of Shells

13. For what does Richard say he would trade his kingdom during the final battle?

(A) A horse

(B) A sword

(D) A better army

14. To whom does Queen Elizabeth promise the hand of young Elizabeth in marriage?

(A) Richard

(B) Clarence

(D) John of Gaunt

15. Why does Richard order Clarence’s murder?

(A) Clarence stands between him and the throne

(B) Clarence seduced Lady Anne

(D) Clarence is a Lancaster

16. To what house does Edward IV belong?

(A) The Yorks

(B) The Hapsburgs

(D) The Windsors

17. Whose son does Richard hold hostage?

(A) Hastings’s

(B) Stanley’s

(D) Anne’s

18. What do the ghosts say to Richard?

(A) “Despair, and die!”

(B) “Wither, bloody villain!”

(D) “Fie on thee and thy house!”

19. Why is Hastings pleased when Elizabeth’s kinsmen are executed?

(A) He realizes it will help Richard gain the throne

(B) He is jealous of the favor in which Richard holds them

(D) He will inherit their lands and their wealth

20. In what century do the events of the play take place?

(A) The fifteenth

(B) The fourteenth

(D) The seventeenth

21. In what prison are the princes confined?

(A) Newgate Prison

(B) Reading Gaol

(D) The Tower of London

22. To what house does Margaret belong?

(A) Hatfield

(B) Lancaster

(D) Usher

23. To whom does Richard give his sword, claiming he wishes to be killed?

(A) Anne

(B) Rivers

(D) Richmond

24. How many ghosts curse Richard in Act V?

(A) Thirteen

(B) Twelve

(D) Nine

25. Why does Richard become alienated from Buckingham?

(A) Buckingham hesitates when Richard proposes killing the Princes

(B) Buckingham urges Richard not to marry young Elizabeth

(D) All of the above