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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Leontes get to agree to kill Polixenes?
(a) Archimedus.
(b) Maximilian.
(c) Trateus.
(d) Camillo.

2. What does Polixenes worry happens to his kingdom if he stays away too long?
(a) He worries his Queen dies.
(b) He worries something bad happens.
(c) He worries his crops die.
(d) He worries he loses his throne.

3. What does Leontes send men to get from the Oracle?
(a) A prayer.
(b) A prophecy.
(c) A ruling.
(d) A message.

4. Why does Leontes believe he has to kill his wife?
(a) To ease the dishonor she causes.
(b) To move on.
(c) To end the discussion of his son's paternity.
(d) To eliminate a traitor.

5. What do the men, in Act three, scene one, want the Oracle to say?
(a) That Hermione leaves the country.
(b) That Hermione divorces the king.
(c) That Hermione lives.
(d) That Hermione is not guilty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the king live without, according to the Oracle, if that which is lost be not found?

2. How does Leontes want his wife killed?

3. What does Hermione deny after Leontes accuses her of having an affair?

4. Polixenes tells Hermione that he and Leontes sin because they haven't met whom?

5. Leontes scolds Antigonus for not keeping his wife in line and says he punishes Paulina how?

(see the answer key)

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