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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does Leontes reassure Polixenes that everything is well in his kingdom?
(a) Leontes has a messenger tell Polixenes that everything is well.
(b) Leontes reads Polixenes a letter from his Queen saying 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.
2. Antigonus speaks to the baby and says that _____ are its caretakers.
(a) The poor.
(b) The priests.
(c) The gods.
(d) The animals.
3. What type of play does Shakespeare list "The Winter's Tale" as?
(a) A romance.
(b) A drama.
(c) A comedy.
(d) A dramedy.
4. What does the king live without, according to the Oracle, if that which is lost be not found?
(a) A son.
(b) A wife.
(c) A family.
(d) An heir.
5. Who is Maxillius' father?
(a) Leontes.
(b) Marcucio.
(c) Polixenes.
(d) Arithide.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does Mamillius fall ill?
2. Who does Leontes get to agree to kill Polixenes?
3. Why does Hermione not want to ask a lady to show Leontes' daughter to him?
4. The kings that Camillo and Archidamus live under are what?
5. What feeling does Leontes have towards Polixenes after seeing him touch his wife's arm?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Hermione say in Antigonus' dream?
2. What happens when Clown helps Autolycus?
3. What is the history behind the friendship of the kings?
4. Why does Polixenes not want to let Camillo go?
5. Why does Leontes think that Camillo is either a liar or stupid at the beginning of the play?
6. What does Time say about Perdita?
7. What do Autolycus and the gentlemen talk about in Act five, scene two?
8. What does the old shepherd think when he happens upon the baby?
9. What are some of the indications that the statue of Hermione is actually Hermione?
10. When Leontes is told that Polixenes and Camillo escape, what does he do about his other children?
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