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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Phaedra's confidante try to dissuade her from doing?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Ignoring her feelings for Hippolytus.
(c) Acting on her attraction to Hippolytus.
(d) Leaving the city to escape her desire.

2. How does Hippolytus die?
(a) He is thrown from a cliff.
(b) He is stabbed by his own sword.
(c) He is dragged to death on the rocks.
(d) He is dragged into the sea by Neptune's creature.

3. In the second act of "Thyestes," how does Atreus plan to wreak vengeance against his brother?
(a) Thyestes will be blinded.
(b) Thyestes will be dragged to death by his horses.
(c) Thyestes will be tricked into eating his own children.
(d) Thyestes will be burned alive.

4. What does Atreus offer to Thyestes when the latter apologizes for his misdeeds against him?
(a) A wife.
(b) Forgiveness and half the crown.
(c) Control of the military.
(d) To name Thyestes' son as his heir.

5. What is Phaedra's relationship to Hippolytus?
(a) She is his stepmother.
(b) She is his sister.
(c) She is his stepsister.
(d) She is his mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what sort of garb is Phaedra's nurse dressed in the third act?

2. Of what does Phaedra's nurse attempt to convince Hippolytus in the second act of "Phaedra"?

3. 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?

4. What creature attacked Hippolytus?

5. When Hippolytus rebuffs Phaedra, how does she react?

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