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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What emotion is Thyestes mysteriously experiencing in the beginning of the last act of "Thyestes"?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Grief.
(c) Anger.
(d) Triumph.

2. What does Agamemnon claim as being forbidden, due to shame and honor?
(a) Abandoning their dead warriors.
(b) Claiming the Trojan women as concubines.
(c) Dishonoring the graves of the fallen Trojans.
(d) Sacrificing a maiden for Achilles.

3. Who does Andromache blame for the fall of Troy?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Paris.
(c) Helen.
(d) Achilles.

4. At the end of the third act of "Phaedra," the chorus cries, "Why dost thou dwell afar,/ All too indifferent to men,/ Not anxious to bring blessing to the good,/ And to the evil, bane"? About what is the chorus lamenting?
(a) Hippolytus has been murdered.
(b) Hippolytus has tried to kill his father.
(c) Phaedra falsely accused Hippolytus of rape.
(d) Phaedra has committed suicide.

5. How was young Tantalus murdered?
(a) His throat was cut.
(b) He was drowned.
(c) He was disemboweled.
(d) He was thrown from a tower.

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom do Hecuba and the chorus lament, though they say nothing will ever adequately express their loss?

2. What fate awaits the children of Thyestes?

3. Who enters at the end of the second act of "Phaedra"?

4. How does Ulysses trick Andromache into revealing Astyanax's location?

5. To whom does Hippolytus pray in the preface of "Phaedra"?

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