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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. When Leontes sees Paulina, what does he tell her to do?
(a) Talk with him.
(b) Stay.
(c) Leave.
(d) Sit down.

2. Where is the guard during Paulina and the other lady's visit?
(a) Out in the hall.
(b) Outside the door.
(c) With them the whole time.
(d) With them at the beginning, and then he leaves.

3. Leontes scolds Antigonus for not keeping his wife in line and says he punishes Paulina how?
(a) By burning her wth fire.
(b) By drowining her.
(c) By imprisoning her.
(d) By making her a servant.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many characters speak in Act three, scene one?

2. Who allows Paulina to take the baby out of the prison?

3. How does Leontes reassure Polixenes that everything is well in his kingdom?

4. In what city is the Oracle located?

5. When Archidamus invites Camillo for a visit, what does he say is lacking at his home?

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