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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Polixenes invoke to get Camillo to tell him Leontes' plan?
(a) A promise.
(b) An oath.
(c) Honor.
(d) Friendship.

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

3. What emotion is Leontes feeling the need to act out on his wife?
(a) Revenge.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Anger.

4. Act three, scene one offers more support for the proposition that the king is the only person who thinks that Hermione is what?
(a) A bad mother.
(b) Innocent.
(c) Unjust.
(d) A witch.

5. What does Hermione say makes her life not worth living?
(a) That the people believe she is a traitor.
(b) That her husband doesn't believe her to be honorable.
(c) That her husband wants her dead.
(d) That she is seperated from her children.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Leontes want his wife killed?

2. Camillo is a lord of what location?

3. What quality does Paulina show towards the queen?

4. What is one of the topics of conversation between the men in Act three, scene one?

5. What does Leontes call for at the beginning of the trial?

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