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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the end of Act three, scene one, what do the men get to make their journey home faster?
(a) A boat.
(b) More oarsmen.
(c) A carriage.
(d) Fresh horses.

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

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

4. What is one of the topics of conversation between the men in Act three, scene one?
(a) The upcoming trial.
(b) The upcoming death.
(c) The upcoming marriage.
(d) The upcoming sacrifice.

5. Hermione tells her husband that his accusations exists only where?
(a) In his mind.
(b) In madness.
(c) In his dream.
(d) In fantasy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who reads, at the trial, what the Oracle says?

2. When hermione embraces Leontes, after stepping off her platform, what does Leontes say?

3. Act three, scene one offers more support for the proposition that the king is the only person who thinks that Hermione is what?

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

5. What is Polixenes threatening the shepherd and his son with?

(see the answer key)

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