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

2. Who refuses to allow Paulina to see Hermione?
(a) The captain.
(b) The guard.
(c) The soldier.
(d) Her husband.

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

4. What does the king live without, according to the Oracle, if that which is lost be not found?
(a) A family.
(b) A son.
(c) A wife.
(d) An heir.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Leontes believe he has to kill his wife?

3. What does Hermione deny after Leontes accuses her of having an affair?

4. When Leontes imprisons Hermione, who does she take with her?

5. What do the men, in Act three, scene one, want the Oracle to say?

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