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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of play does Shakespeare list "The Winter's Tale" as?
(a) A romance.
(b) A drama.
(c) A dramedy.
(d) A comedy.

2. What does Hermione think is sufficient proof of her innocence?
(a) The way she lives her life.
(b) The fact that she says she's not guilty.
(c) The way others view her.
(d) The fact that the king is mad.

3. What do the men, in Act three, scene one, want the Oracle to say?
(a) That Hermione lives.
(b) That Hermione is not guilty.
(c) That Hermione leaves the country.
(d) That Hermione divorces the king.

4. Who tells Leontes that Polixenes and Camillo run off together?
(a) A lord.
(b) A duke.
(c) A knight.
(d) A messenger.

5. What does "Apollo's great divine seal" refer to?
(a) The ruling from the Oracle.
(b) The prophecy from the Oracle.
(c) The expression of Apollo's pleasure with the Oracle.
(d) The seal on the message from the Oracle.

6. What does Leontes send men to get from the Oracle?
(a) A ruling.
(b) A message.
(c) A prayer.
(d) A prophecy.

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

8. How does Leontes want his wife killed?
(a) By fire.
(b) By beheading.
(c) By impailment.
(d) By drowning.

9. What emotion is Leontes feeling the need to act out on his wife?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Anger.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Revenge.

10. Antigonus says that if Hermione is adulterous, then no other woman is what?
(a) Righteous.
(b) Faithful.
(c) Honorable.
(d) Loyal.

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

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

13. How does Archidamus plan on making up for what is lacking at his home?
(a) With drinks and food.
(b) With drinks and love for their friends.
(c) With great scenery and drinks.
(d) With great books and love for their friends.

14. Why does Hermione not want to ask a lady to show Leontes' daughter to him?
(a) She doesn't know if her daughter survives.
(b) She doesn't know if Leontes wants to see his daughter.
(c) She is afraid no one says yes.
(d) She doesn't know who to ask.

15. What does Paulina say she does, if she is a man?
(a) Fight the king until he is dead.
(b) Fight the king because he is wrong.
(c) Fight the king for the queen's honor.
(d) Fight the king until he acknowledges the truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Act one, scene one sets up the ______ that the play is based on.

2. The king is the only person who believes that Hermione is what?

3. Who is the lady Paulina asks to see when she is not allowed to see the Queen?

4. When is "The Winter's Tale" first published?

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

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