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Q1What does King Henry agree to give up in exchange for marrying Princess Margaret?
Q2Why does Gloucester's wife Eleanor commission witches and conjurers?
Q3How does Gloucester expose the blind beggar Simpcox as a fraud?
Q4What accusation brings Duke Humphrey into the king's court as a prisoner?
Q5Who kills the Duke of Gloucester, and where is his body discovered?
Q6What is the Duke of Suffolk's fate after he is banished from England?
Q7What does Jack Cade claim as his right to lead England?
Q8Who is Eleanor Cobham, and what happens to her?
Q9Why does York secretly support Jack Cade's rebellion?
Q10Who is Alexander Iden, and what does he accomplish?
Q11Who says, 'Blotting your names from books of memory'?
Q12What does the spirit conjured by the witches prophesy about Suffolk?
Q13Who says, 'The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers'?
Q14How does the play frame writing and literacy as sources of power?
Q15What role do the witches' prophecies play in the play's treatment of fate?
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