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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 long does Polixenes stay with Leontes and Hermione?
(a) 18 months.
(b) One year.
(c) Nine months.
(d) Two years.

2. If Hermione is adulterous, what does Antigonus want to do to his daughters?
(a) Have them imprisoned with Hermione.
(b) Never see them married.
(c) Have them taken away to another land.
(d) Have them sterilized.

3. What emotion is Leontes feeling the need to act out on his wife?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Anger.
(d) Revenge.

4. What does the king live without, according to the Oracle, if that which is lost be not found?
(a) A wife.
(b) An heir.
(c) A son.
(d) A family.

5. What is one of the charges laid against Hermione at her trial?
(a) Conspiracy.
(b) Murder.
(c) Infidelity.
(d) Theft.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Hermione not want to ask a lady to show Leontes' daughter to him?

2. What is one of the topics of conversation between the men in Act three, scene one?

3. Why does Leontes believe he has to kill his wife?

4. Antigonus says that if Hermione is adulterous, then no other woman is what?

5. What does Paulina say she does, if she is a man?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Leontes tell Florizel about marrying Perdita, once he finds out that they are not married and she is not royal?

2. Why is Act one, scene one important?

3. What function does Time serve?

4. What does Camillo advise Polixenes to do regarding Leontes and the charge of adultery?

5. What are the comments and questions that the servant and Leontes have about Florizel's arrival in Sicilia?

6. Why does Camillo want to return to Sicilia?

7. Why does Hermione say that she has nothing left in her life?

8. Where are Cleomenes and Dion, and how long are they gone?

9. What is the king waiting for before killing the queen?

10. What does Hermione say in Antigonus' dream?

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