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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Tantalus serve as a meal to the gods?
(a) Pelops.
(b) Thyestes.
(c) Plisthenes.
(d) Atreus.

2. What does Phaedra wear in the second act?
(a) Hunting garb.
(b) A wedding dress.
(c) Mourning clothes.
(d) Hippolytus' armor.

3. What fate awaits the children of Thyestes?
(a) Their bodies will be fed to wild animals.
(b) They will be buried alive.
(c) Their bodies will be boiled to pieces.
(d) They will be exiled.

4. What does the chorus sing about at the end of the first act of "Phaedra"?
(a) They sing about how every living creatures will surrender to love eventually.
(b) They sing about the transcendent nature of death.
(c) They sing about Aphrodite's influence over Phaedra.
(d) They sing about the unnatural love Phaedra has for Hippolytus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What emotion is Thyestes mysteriously experiencing in the beginning of the last act of "Thyestes"?

2. Who is the father of Tantulus?

3. Whom does Tantalus attempt to warn about their impending deaths?

4. What must Atreus convince Thyestes to accept in the third act of "Thyestes"?

5. What is the station of Theseus' first wife?

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