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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. Where is the guard during Paulina and the other lady's visit?
(a) With them at the beginning, and then he leaves.
(b) Outside the door.
(c) With them the whole time.
(d) Out in the hall.

2. Polixenes says that, as children, what sin does he and Leontes commit?
(a) Drinking.
(b) Gambling.
(c) Carousing.
(d) The original sin.

3. How many characters speak in Act three, scene one?
(a) Five.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

4. Who reads, at the trial, what the Oracle says?
(a) An officer.
(b) Leontes.
(c) A messenger.
(d) A soldier.

5. What type of play does Shakespeare list "The Winter's Tale" as?
(a) A comedy.
(b) A dramedy.
(c) A drama.
(d) A romance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hermione say makes her life not worth living?

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

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

4. Archidamus is a lord of what location?

5. Leontes asks Antigonus if he does not rule his own wife. What is Paulina's reply?

Short Essay Questions

1. What prompts Leontes to say that he is king, and doesn't require any advice?

2. How does Hermione convince Polixenes to stay and extend his visit with Leontes?

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

4. What does Time say in his speech?

5. What is a soliloquy?

6. What happens when Clown helps Autolycus?

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

8. Why do Leontes and Perdita not want Paulina to close the curtain on the statue of Hermione?

9. When Leontes is told that Polixenes and Camillo escape, what does he do about his other children?

10. How is Leontes planning to have his revenge on Hermione and Polixenes?

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