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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Whose son is mentioned in Time's speech?
(a) Leontes'.
(b) Antigonus'.
(c) Camillo's.
(d) Polixenes'.

4. What does Antigonus tell the king he does to save the life of the infant?
(a) Sacrifice his own children.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Sacrifice his own life.
(d) Anything.

5. Hermione says that Polixenes can stay with them as their guest or as what?
(a) Their family.
(b) Their enemy.
(c) Their servant.
(d) Their prisoner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Clown find inside the bundle with the infant?

2. How does Leontes plan to kill Polixenes?

3. Camillo is a lord of what location?

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

5. Who brings Florizel and Perdita to meet Leontes for the first time?

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