SparkNotes: The Winter's Tale: Review Quiz

Leontes is the king of what country?

(A) Bohemia

(B) England

(C) Sicilia

(D) Denmark

When we first see them, Leontes is trying to convince Polixenes to

(A) Admit to sleeping with Hermione

(B) Remain in Sicilia a little while longer

(C) Invite him back to Bohemia

(D) Betrothe his son to Leontes's daughter.

Polixenes and Leontes are

(A) Military allies

(B) Boyhood friends

(C) Mortal enemies

(D) Husband and wife.

Leontes becomes jealous, and decides that Hermione is having an affair with

(A) Camillo

(B) Antigonus

(C) Florizel

(D) Polixenes

In order to deal with his wife's infidelity, Leontes orders Camillo to

(A) Have the Queen executed

(B) Poison Polixenes

(C) Poison Antigonus

(D) Kill himself

Disobeying his king's orders, Camillo

(A) Helps Polixenes escape

(B) Warns the Queen she is in danger

(C) Takes Mamillius away from the court

(D) Poisons Leontes

When Hermione gives birth to a daughter, Leontes

(A) Has the child killed

(B) Orders the child abandoned in the wilderness

(C) Leaves the child in prison with its mother

(D) Sends the child to Polixenes

In order to prove the truth of his accusations against Hermione, Leontes

(A) Sends messengers to the Oracle of Delphi

(B) Tries to extract a confession from Polixenes

(C) Orders a trial by jury

(D) Threatens to kill her child unless she confesses

When Hermione's innocence is revealed,

(A) She is reconciled to her husband

(B) Leontes abdicates

(C) Leontes is overthrown

(D) Both Hermione and Mamillius die

After leaving Perdita on the Bohemian coast, Antigonus

(A) Is killed by a bear

(B) Returns to Sicilia

(C) Goes to Polixenes's court

(D) Drowns in a terrible storm

After Perdita is abandoned, __ years pass before the story picks up again.

(A) 20

(B) 16

(C) 10

(D) 4

Perdita is raised by

(A) Polixenes

(B) Wolves

(C) No one, she dies in the forest

(D) A Shepherd

Polixenes and Camillo come to the Shepherd's house when

(A) Perdita is marrying Florizel

(B) The Shepherd is holding a sheepshearing

(C) They learn Perdita's true identity

(D) Florizel asks them to come

When Florizel and Perdita are about to be betrothed

(A) Polixenes reveals himself, and puts a halt to the betrothal

(B) Polixenes reveals himself, and gives his blessing

(C) The Shepherd refuses to witness their agreement

(D) Florizel has second thoughts about marrying her

After his father threatens to disinherit him if he marries Perdita, Florizel

(A) Agrees never to see her again

(B) Resolves to flee with her

(C) Plots to overthrow his father

(D) Pretends to agree, and then visits Perdita in secret

On Camillo's advice, Perdita and Florizel

(A) Beg Polixenes's forgiveness

(B) Flee to England

(C) Take a ship to Sicily

(D) Are married on the spot

To disguise himself, Florizel puts on the clothes of

(A) The Shepherd

(B) The Clown

(C) Autolycus

(D) Camillo

After being threatened with hanging by Polixenes, the Shepherd resolves to

(A) Flee the country

(B) Kill himself

(C) Tell the King that Perdita is not really his daughter

(D) Keep a low profile

Thanks to Autolycus, the Shepherd ends up

(A) Accompanying his daughter and Florizel to Sicily

(B) Lost in the forest

(C) Refusing to tell Polixenes anything

(D) Losing all his money

In Sicily, Leontes promises Paulina

(A) Never to marry without her permission

(B) To marry again quickly

(C) To make Polixenes his heir

(D) To build a great statue of Hermione

Florizel and Perdita arrive in Sicily claiming

(A) To be Leontes' long-lost children

(B) To have been sent by Polixenes

(C) To be messengers from Camillo

(D) To be simple sailors

Their ruse fails when

(A) Leontes sees through it

(B) Leontes recognizes his daughter

(C) Perdita recognizes her father

(D) Polixenes arrives in Sicily

After Perdita's true identity is revealed,

(A) Everyone rejoices and Florizel becomes King of Sicily and Bohemia

(B) She marries Florizel on the spot

(C) Everyone goes to Paulina's home

(D) Leontes is overcome by happiness and dies

At the end of the play, Autolycus

(A) Becomes a servant of the newly ennobled Shepherd

(B) Is imprisoned for his many crimes

(C) Is pardoned by Polixenes

(D) Returns to his life of crime

The play ends with

(A) Hermione being found alive, living in Paulina's house

(B) The marriage of Perdita and Florizel

(C) Hermione's statue being unveiled and placed in the royal palace of Sicily

(D) Hermione's statue coming to life