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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 4, Scene 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Time say it is in his power to overthrow?
(a) Law.
(b) Governments.
(c) Culture.
(d) Customs.

2. What do the men, in Act three, scene one, think of forcing faults on Hermione?
(a) They think it is a violent thing.
(b) They think the king is mad.
(c) They do not like it.
(d) They claim it is a curse.

3. Who allows Paulina to take the baby out of the prison?
(a) The king.
(b) The guard.
(c) Her husband.
(d) The knight.

4. Who tells Leontes that Polixenes and Camillo run off together?
(a) A knight.
(b) A messenger.
(c) A duke.
(d) A lord.

5. What does the king live without, according to the Oracle, if that which is lost be not found?
(a) A family.
(b) A son.
(c) An heir.
(d) A wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Leontes scolds Antigonus for not keeping his wife in line and says he punishes Paulina how?

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

3. If Hermione is adulterous, what does Antigonus want to do to his daughters?

4. Antigonus speaks to the baby and says that _____ are its caretakers.

5. An old shepherd enters the scene, complaining that ______ chased away two of his sheep.

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