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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Polixenes tells Hermione that he and Leontes sin because they haven't met whom?
(a) The most beautiful women.
(b) The love of their lives.
(c) The right woman.
(d) Their wives.

2. Who is Maxillius' father?
(a) Leontes.
(b) Polixenes.
(c) Arithide.
(d) Marcucio.

3. What does Hermione whisper in Mamillius' ear before Leontes enters?
(a) Who his father is.
(b) A secret.
(c) A story.
(d) That she loves him.

4. What does Hermione deny after Leontes accuses her of having an affair?
(a) That her unborn baby is Polixenes.
(b) That her unborn baby is a girl.
(c) That her unborn baby is from an affair.
(d) That her unborn baby survives.

5. Act one, scene one sets up the ______ that the play is based on.
(a) Themes.
(b) Background.
(c) Lines.
(d) Issues.

Short Answer Questions

1. When is "The Winter's Tale" first published?

2. Antigonus says that if Hermione is adulterous, then no other woman is what?

3. What feeling does Leontes have towards Polixenes after seeing him touch his wife's arm?

4. Hermione says that Polixenes can stay with them as their guest or as what?

5. What type of play does Shakespeare list "The Winter's Tale" as?

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