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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Phaedra doing in the beginning of the fifth act?
(a) Seducing Theseus.
(b) Attempting suicide.
(c) Cutting and burning her hair.
(d) Mourning Hippolytus.

2. For what reason does Phaedra dress in a particular manner in the second act?
(a) She wants to feel what Hippolytus feels when he hunts.
(b) She wishes to attract Hippolytus' attention.
(c) She is trying to remind herself what is good in her marriage.
(d) She is mourning the death of her husband.

3. From where does the messenger in the fourth act come in "Oedipus"?
(a) Thebes.
(b) Corinth.
(c) Troy.
(d) Sparta.

4. Where does Andromache hide her son?
(a) The temple of Apollo.
(b) The caves by the edge of the city.
(c) The marketplace.
(d) Hector's tomb.

5. What actions did the old shepherd perform before the beginning of "Oedipus"?
(a) He blessed Oedipus upon his birth.
(b) He took Oedipus as a baby to the Corinthian messenger.
(c) He cursed Oedipus with the prophecy.
(d) He killed Laius.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what does Hecuba pray?

2. What is Tiresias unable to do in the second act of "Oedipus"?

3. What is Phaedra's relationship to Hippolytus?

4. What does Agamemnon claim as being forbidden, due to shame and honor?

5. Why is Creon sent away at the end of the first act of "Oedipus"?

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