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Q1What does Bedford mourn at the opening of the play?
Q2How does Joan la Pucelle prove her worth to the Dauphin?
Q3What conflict between Gloucester and Winchester nearly tears apart London?
Q4Who is secretly responsible for Talbot's capture at Patay?
Q5Why does the Countess of Auvergne imprison Talbot?
Q6What is the significance of the rose-plucking scene in the Temple garden?
Q7What does Mortimer reveal to Richard Plantagenet before dying?
Q8What event prompts Henry VI to suddenly decide to marry Margaret of Anjou?
Q9How does Joan la Pucelle lose her magical power?
Q10Who says, 'Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night'?
Q11What does 'My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel' reveal about Talbot?
Q12What does John Talbot refuse to do, even when his father begs him?
Q13Who says, 'Now my old arms are young John Talbot's grave'?
Q14Why does Somerset refuse to send reinforcements to Talbot at Bordeaux?
Q15What does Suffolk's final soliloquy reveal about his true ambition?
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