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

2. Antigonus says that if Hermione is adulterous, then no other woman is what?
(a) Honorable.
(b) Faithful.
(c) Righteous.
(d) Loyal.

3. What does Hermione do when she hears the news that Mamillius dies?
(a) She begins a lament.
(b) She cries.
(c) She faints.
(d) She runs away.

4. What causes Hermione to give birth early?
(a) Stress.
(b) Fear.
(c) Anger.
(d) Sickness.

5. Leontes asks Antigonus if he does not rule his own wife. What is Paulina's reply?
(a) That he does not.
(b) That he does if she is acting dishonorably.
(c) That he does if she lets him.
(d) That she has free will, and no one rules her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hermione says that Polixenes can stay with them as their guest or as what?

2. In what city is the Oracle located?

3. What do the men, in Act three, scene one, want the Oracle to say?

4. Antigonus speaks to the baby and says that _____ are its caretakers.

5. How many men does Leontes send to the Oracle?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Camillo describe the shepherd and his estate?

2. In Act one, scene one, how does Camillo explain the kings' inability to visit each other?

3. How does the shepherd and Clown become gentlemen?

4. Who is in disagreement about whether Leontes marries again, and why?

5. Is Leontes alone is his belief that Hermione is guilty of dishonor and adultery?

6. What is Paulina's response, when the king asks her husband if he dess not rule her?

7. When Archidamus invites Camillo to Bohemia, how does Archidamus describe Bohemia?

8. What happens when Leontes and Polixenes meet each other again, for the first time since Polixenes fled Sicilia?

9. Why does Polixenes not want to let Camillo go?

10. What function does Time serve?

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