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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Men see the act of combat as _________.
(a) Horrifying.
(b) Duty.
(c) Gruesome.
(d) Glorious.

2. Who says, "The sins of the father [are] visited upon the son?"
(a) The Fury.
(b) The Spinx.
(c) The Bible.
(d) The Oracle.

3. Whose shield bears the image of a man climbing a ladder and shouting that not even Ares will knock him off it?
(a) Eteoklos.
(b) Polyneices.
(c) Kapaneus.
(d) Hyperbios.

4. Who says, "When they are brave, they are insolent and intolerable, and when they are frightened, they are rash and dangerous?"
(a) Eteocles' soldiers.
(b) Eteocles.
(c) The Chorus.
(d) Polyneices.

5. How does Eteocles try to calm the Chorus in Part 2?
(a) He tells them to get out of Thebes.
(b) He gives them a formal prayer to offer the gods.
(c) He doesn't.
(d) He tells them all is well.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Chorus formally pray to Zeus and the other gods, asking them _____________.

2. The theme of the play is based on what two stories?

3. Eteocles' and Oedipus' story is playing out the curse originally laid on ___________.

4. Which of the following is not a fear of the women of Thebes?

5. Why is Tydeus forbidden to cross the river?

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