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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Camillo is a lord of what location?
(a) Francisca.
(b) Italia.
(c) Sicilia.
(d) Dormania.

2. Who allows Paulina to take the baby out of the prison?
(a) Her husband.
(b) The knight.
(c) The king.
(d) The guard.

3. What does Antigonus tell the king he does to save the life of the infant?
(a) Sacrifice his own children.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Sacrifice his own life.
(d) Anything.

4. Polixenes tells Hermione that he and Leontes sin because they haven't met whom?
(a) Their wives.
(b) The right woman.
(c) The most beautiful women.
(d) The love of their lives.

5. Who tells the king that the queen dies?
(a) A lady.
(b) A lord.
(c) Paulina.
(d) A servant.

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

7. Polixenes says that, as children, what sin does he and Leontes commit?
(a) Gambling.
(b) Carousing.
(c) The original sin.
(d) Drinking.

8. How do the men, in Act three, scene one, say the journey to the Oracle is?
(a) Filled with riches.
(b) Full of bad weather.
(c) Good.
(d) Dreary.

9. Who is the lady Paulina asks to see when she is not allowed to see the Queen?
(a) Emilia.
(b) Emma.
(c) Emily.
(d) Ertide.

10. Who tells the king that Mamillius dies?
(a) A nanny.
(b) A servant.
(c) A nurse.
(d) A messenger.

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

12. How does Leontes reassure Polixenes that everything is well in his kingdom?
(a) Leontes reads Polixenes a letter from his Queen saying everything is well.
(b) Leontes has a messenger tell Polixenes that everything is well.
(c) Leontes doesn't reassure Polixenes that everything is well.
(d) Leontes says that they are notified the day before that everything is well.

13. What does Paulina think causes the king to see his mistake?
(a) Hearing how Hermione is doing.
(b) Seeing his new daughter.
(c) Talking to the king.
(d) Seeing Hermione.

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

15. Act three, scene one offers more support for the proposition that the king is the only person who thinks that Hermione is what?
(a) A bad mother.
(b) A witch.
(c) Unjust.
(d) Innocent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Leontes believe he has to kill his wife?

2. Hermione tells her husband that his accusations exists only where?

3. Who delivers the young baby to Paulina?

4. Antigonus says that if Hermione is adulterous, then no other woman is what?

5. At the end of Act three, scene one, what do the men get to make their journey home faster?

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