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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What theme does Act four, scene three introduce?
(a) Loyalty and honor.
(b) Patience and thieves.
(c) Truth and justice.
(d) Costumes and disguises.

2. Why are the shepherd and Clown gentlemen?
(a) The kings give them enough money to be gentlemen.
(b) The kings give them titles to lands far away.
(c) They agree to serve the kings.
(d) The kings call them brother.

3. The shepherd and his son are with Polixenes in Sicilia. What emotion do the shepherd and his son feel?
(a) Anger.
(b) Worry.
(c) Stress.
(d) Fear.

4. According to the stage directions, who enters with Time?
(a) The Chorus.
(b) A messenger.
(c) Perdita.
(d) No one.

5. When Clown enters, he lists of things he needs to buy for what?
(a) The household.
(b) His sister.
(c) Nightly dinner.
(d) The sheep-shearing feast.

6. What does Hermione tell Antigonus that he never sees again, because of this task?
(a) His family.
(b) His daughters.
(c) His wife.
(d) His home.

7. An old shepherd enters the scene, complaining that ______ chased away two of his sheep.
(a) Young hunters.
(b) The storm.
(c) Lost dogs.
(d) A bear.

8. When the shepherd and Clown figure out who Autolycus really is, what does Autolycus want passed along to the prince?
(a) His regrets.
(b) His demands.
(c) His request for a position.
(d) His well wishes.

9. What does Act four, scene two set up?
(a) The following scenes.
(b) The climax.
(c) The comic relief.
(d) The tone of the play.

10. What does Clown find inside the bundle with the infant?
(a) Gold.
(b) Jewels.
(c) A letter.
(d) Diamonds.

11. Polixenes asks Camillo to not mention Sicilia anymore because it reminds him of what?
(a) Hermione's daughter.
(b) Mamillius.
(c) Leontes.
(d) Hermione.

12. Who does Autolycus promise that he changes his ways?
(a) The kings.
(b) Perdita.
(c) The shepherd and Clown.
(d) Florizel.

13. What does Florizel tell Leontes is the reason that prevents his father from coming to visit?
(a) Old age.
(b) Sickness.
(c) His wife.
(d) Worries about the kingdom.

14. When Clown offers Autolycus money, Autolycus says what?
(a) That his wife is nearby.
(b) That he has money at home.
(c) That his home is nearby.
(d) That he has kinsmen nearby.

15. What happens to the ship that carries Antigonus and the mariner?
(a) It goes down in the storm.
(b) It is swamped by a wave.
(c) It is hit by lightening.
(d) It gets lost going home.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years pass, according to Time?

2. Antigonus tells the infant that it is ______ fault she is cast out in the storm.

3. How long is it, at the start of Act four scene twoi, since Camillo sets foot in his home country?

4. Florizel introduces Perdita to Leontes as a royal from where?

5. Where does Clown invite Autolycus to join him and his father at?

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