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Shakespeare's History Plays: The Ultimate Quiz

Question #6
Which history play opens with the lines:

So shaken as we are, so wan with care,
Find we a time for frighted peace to pant,
And breathe short-winded accents of new broils
To be commenced in strands afar remote.


a) Henry V
b) King John
c) 1 Henry VI
d) 1 Henry IV

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