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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Paulina identify that shows her husband is dead?
(a) A shoe.
(b) A ring.
(c) A medallion.
(d) A cufflink.

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

3. What does Camillo think returning to his home country does for Leontes?
(a) Allow him to repent his sins.
(b) Allow him to be king again.
(c) Relieve some of his guilt.
(d) Give him peace of mind.

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

5. Florizel says that Polixenes listens to Leontes and does what?
(a) Follow his advice.
(b) Give in to his requests.
(c) Make a better decision.
(d) Cool down.

6. Who tells Leontes that Florizel runs off with the daughter of a shepherd?
(a) A lord.
(b) A soldier.
(c) A messenger.
(d) A servant.

7. Autolycus serves as a medium to convey what?
(a) The happenings of the other characters.
(b) The feelings of the other characters.
(c) The morals of the story.
(d) The results of the action.

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

9. At the end of Act four, scene two, where do Polixenes and Camillo go?
(a) To the throne room.
(b) To the university to find Florizel.
(c) To the church.
(d) To the shepherd's estate.

10. Florizel confesses that Perdita is not royal, but says she is once what happens?
(a) Once Paulina adopts her.
(b) Once they marry.
(c) Once Leontes ennobles her.
(d) Once Polixenes makes her royal.

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

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

13. What does Camillo say that the shepherd has, when asked by Polixenes?
(a) A beautiful daughter.
(b) An unusual daughter.
(c) A graceful daughter.
(d) A comic daughter.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. An old shepherd enters the scene, complaining that ______ chased away two of his sheep.

2. Leontes says that Florizel does not marry without what?

3. What does Time say is the effect of Leontes' grieving?

4. What does Autolycus say, in an aside, happens to Florizel and Perdita on the ship?

5. When Antigonus leaves the infant, what does he hear?

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