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

2. What purpose does Act four, scene one serve?
(a) To say that there is no explanation of what is missed during the years that pass.
(b) To say that the setting of the play changes to Bohemia.
(c) To say that everyone grows up and are now going to be the focus of the play.
(d) To say that the main characters in the play change.

3. What does Leontes call for at the beginning of the trial?
(a) Honor.
(b) Justice.
(c) Duty.
(d) Integrity.

4. 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.

5. How does the king, at first, order Antigonus to kill the baby?
(a) By deserting it on a boat.
(b) By starving it.
(c) By leaving it exposed to the elements.
(d) By throwing it into the fire.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Antigonus leaves the infant, what does he hear?

2. Who are Mopsa and Dorcas?

3. Antigonus speaks to the baby and says that _____ are its caretakers.

4. Leontes scolds Antigonus for not keeping his wife in line and says he punishes Paulina how?

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

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