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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 4, Scene 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does Polixenes stay with Leontes and Hermione?
(a) 18 months.
(b) Two years.
(c) One year.
(d) Nine months.

2. When Polixenes removes his disguise, what does he tell Perdita to do, or else she is condemned to a painful death?
(a) Marry someone else immediately.
(b) Never be near Florizel again.
(c) Leave the kingdom.
(d) Marry the king immediately.

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

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

5. Where does Polixenes say that Florizel is spending a great deal of time?
(a) At a shepherd's estate.
(b) At the church.
(c) At the university.
(d) At the house of a young lady.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Act four, scene two set up?

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

3. How many men does Leontes send to the Oracle?

4. What type of play does Shakespeare list "The Winter's Tale" as?

5. How do the men, in Act three, scene one, say the journey to the Oracle is?

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