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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. What does Polixenes worry happens to his kingdom if he stays away too long?
(a) He worries he loses his throne.
(b) He worries something bad happens.
(c) He worries his Queen dies.
(d) He worries his crops die.

2. How many daughters does Antigonus have?
(a) Six.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

3. Polixenes says that, as children, what sin does he and Leontes commit?
(a) Drinking.
(b) Carousing.
(c) Gambling.
(d) The original sin.

4. If Hermione is adulterous, what does Antigonus want to do to his daughters?
(a) Have them sterilized.
(b) Have them imprisoned with Hermione.
(c) Have them taken away to another land.
(d) Never see them married.

5. When is "The Winter's Tale" first published?
(a) 1623.
(b) 1524.
(c) 1787.
(d) 1846.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who tells Leontes that Polixenes and Camillo run off together?

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

4. How does Leontes plan to kill Polixenes?

5. Polixenes tells Hermione that he and Leontes sin because they haven't met whom?

(see the answer key)

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