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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Perdita say that some people call her hybrid flowers?
(a) Nature's bastards.
(b) Flower's bastards.
(c) Garden's bastards.
(d) Home-grown flowers.

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

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

4. Where does Autolycus tell the shepherd and Clown that the king is?
(a) On a ship.
(b) In his palace.
(c) Outside in a carriage.
(d) At his summer palace.

5. How old is Perdita in Act four, scene one?
(a) Thirteen.
(b) Fourteen.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Sixteen.

6. What is Autolycus' occupation before becoming a rogue?
(a) Servant to the king.
(b) Servant to the queen.
(c) Servant to the princess.
(d) Servant to the prince.

7. What is Polixenes threatening the shepherd and his son with?
(a) Torture.
(b) Imprisonment.
(c) Death.
(d) Fines.

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

9. Perdita tells Florizal that she must win the king's approval to marry him or else do what?
(a) Marry someone else.
(b) Never see him again.
(c) Leave the country.
(d) End her life.

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

11. Where does Time say the setting of the play is now?
(a) Greece.
(b) Rome.
(c) Sicilia.
(d) Bohemia.

12. How long, at the beginning of Act four, scene twoi, is it since Camillo sees Florizel?
(a) Three days.
(b) Six days.
(c) Five days.
(d) Four days.

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

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

15. Who brings Florizel and Perdita to meet Leontes for the first time?
(a) Cleomenes.
(b) Dion.
(c) A servant.
(d) A messenger.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Camillo say that the shepherd has, when asked by Polixenes?

3. What purpose does Act four, scene one serve?

4. According to the stage directions, who enters with Time?

5. What happens while Clown picks Autolycus off the ground?

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