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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What name does Perdita call Florizel, before she knows he is a prince?
(a) Docesus.
(b) Doricles.
(c) Dominicus.
(d) Dorticles.

2. What is Autolycus doing when he exits Act four, scene three?
(a) Running.
(b) Cheering.
(c) Whistling.
(d) Singing.

3. What does Hermione tell Antigonus to do as he lays the baby down?
(a) Weep.
(b) Pray.
(c) Sing.
(d) Leave milk.

4. Polixenes thinks that to grant Camillo's wish to go home is what?
(a) Something he does not do.
(b) A good thing.
(c) An act of kindness.
(d) A death.

5. Before Polixenes and Camillo go away together, what does Polixenes say they must do?
(a) Disguise themselves.
(b) Prepare a speech.
(c) Dress properly.
(d) Pray for guidence.

6. How does Polixenes characterize the shepherd, based on his intelligence?
(a) Homely.
(b) Low-born.
(c) Base-born.
(d) Uneducated.

7. What does Antigonus leave with the baby?
(a) A birth certificate.
(b) A dress.
(c) A scroll.
(d) A crown.

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

9. Who tries to convince the Leontes that he feels enough guilt and does enough good to make up for earlier mistakes?
(a) Paulina.
(b) A lord.
(c) Cleomenes.
(d) Dion.

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

11. Autolycus grovels besides Clown and says what happens to him?
(a) He is beaten and blinded.
(b) He is robbed and left behind.
(c) He is hurt and his clothes are stolen.
(d) He is beaten and robbed.

12. Perdita fears for her father and says that who are conspiring against her and Florizel?
(a) The gods.
(b) Her family.
(c) The kings.
(d) The fates.

13. How many years pass, according to Time?
(a) Thirteen.
(b) Sixteen.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Fourteen.

14. Who does Autolycus say robs him, when Clown asks?
(a) Autolycus describes a different thief.
(b) Autolycus describes Clown.
(c) Autolycus describes Florizel.
(d) Autolycus describes himself.

15. What does Autolycus say, in an aside, happens to Florizel and Perdita on the ship?
(a) They are sick from stress.
(b) They go into hiding.
(c) They get seasick.
(d) They aren't listening to anyone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the area where Antigonus and the mariner take the baby known for?

2. What does Hermione tell Antigonus that he never sees again, because of this task?

3. Whose son is mentioned in Time's speech?

4. What is a second object that is with Perdita, that the shepherd has in a bundle, that proves Perdita is the daughter of Leontes?

5. What does Time say he is turning to make the time pass?

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