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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, Scene 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does "Apollo's great divine seal" refer to?
(a) The seal on the message from the Oracle.
(b) The ruling from the Oracle.
(c) The prophecy from the Oracle.
(d) The expression of Apollo's pleasure with the Oracle.

2. What feeling does Leontes have towards Polixenes after seeing him touch his wife's arm?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Love.
(c) Fear.
(d) Friendship.

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

4. What does Leontes send men to get from the Oracle?
(a) A message.
(b) A ruling.
(c) A prophecy.
(d) A prayer.

5. Who is the lady Paulina asks to see when she is not allowed to see the Queen?
(a) Emma.
(b) Ertide.
(c) Emilia.
(d) Emily.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Paulina say she does, if she is a man?

3. What emotion is Leontes feeling the need to act out on his wife?

4. When Cleomenes says "fertile the isle/the temple much surpassing", what is he referring to?

5. Who delivers the young baby to Paulina?

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