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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the king, at first, order Antigonus to kill the baby?
(a) By throwing it into the fire.
(b) By starving it.
(c) By leaving it exposed to the elements.
(d) By deserting it on a boat.

2. Who does Paulina assure that she protects from punishment for allowing her to take the baby out of the prison?
(a) Emily.
(b) Emilia.
(c) The guard.
(d) Hermione.

3. The king is the only person who believes that Hermione is what?
(a) Innocent.
(b) Dangerous.
(c) Adulterous.
(d) Loyal.

4. How does Leontes plan to kill Polixenes?
(a) With poison in his wine.
(b) With a dagger at night.
(c) By beheading him.
(d) By pushing him off a cliff.

5. Leontes asks Antigonus if he does not rule his own wife. What is Paulina's reply?
(a) That he does not.
(b) That he does if she lets him.
(c) That she has free will, and no one rules her.
(d) That he does if she is acting dishonorably.

Short Answer Questions

1. Polixenes says that, as children, what sin does he and Leontes commit?

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

3. The regions that Camillo and Archidamus are from are located where, in relation to each other?

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

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

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