The Winter's Tale Study Guide

1. Leontes is king of

• Bohemia
• England
• Sicilia
• Delphos

2. Polixenes is king of

• Bohemia
• England
• Sicilia
• Delphos

3. Mamillius is

• Prince of Sicilia, son of Hermione and Leontes
• Prince of England, son of Perdita and Florizell
• Prince of Delphos, and a foundling
• Prince of Bohemia, son of Hermione and Polixenes

4. Leontes and Polixenes were

• boyhood friends
• former enemies, generals on different sides of a great war
• born of the same mother but different fathers
• companions on a great quest for the bow of Artemis

5. Leontes orders Camillo to

• poison Hermione
• poison Polixenes
• poison Perdita
• poison himself

6. Camillo chooses to

• disobey Leontes and warn Hermione of danger
• disobey Leontes and help Polixenes to escape
• disobey Leontes and help Perdita to escape
• disobey Leontes and poison himself

7. Leontes accuses Hermione of

• trying to suffocate their baby
• plotting with Camillo and Polixenes against him
• having and adulterous affair with Polixenes
• both plotting with Camillo and Polixenes against him and having and adulterous affair with Polixenes

8. Paulina could best be described as

• both a proto-feminist, intent on change through revolution and a strong-willed and outspoken woman who is ultimately loyal to the king and social stability
• a strong-willed and outspoken woman who is ultimately loyal to the king and social stability
• a devout and forgiving woman, following the Christian model of passive and obedient feminine virtue
• a proto-feminist, intent on change through revolution

9. Paulina takes the baby from Hermione's cell, hoping to

• protect the child from Leontes' jealous rage
• bring the baby to Leontes, to restore the king to his senses
• protect Hermione from the child, which is possessed
• none of the above

10. Leontes has dispatched

• letters to the pope, hoping for his guidance
• messengers to the oracle of Apollo
• letters to the King of Athens, hoping to start a war against Bohemia
• messengers to England, hoping to get the advice of the oracle