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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Octavia.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What false offer has Atreus apparently made to Thyestes, according to the third act of "Thyestes"?
(a) Atreus will have his nephews educated if Thyestes becomes his advisor.
(b) Atreus will groom young Tantalus to rule the kingdom.
(c) Thyestes will rule in Atreus' stead.
(d) The two brothers will rule the kingdom jointly.
2. According to the chorus at the end of "Octavia," what is an enemy of man?
(a) Life.
(b) Time.
(c) Death.
(d) Justice.
3. What is plaguing Poppaea on her wedding day?
(a) She knows that the subjects will reject her as queen.
(b) A dream that suggests she will be punished in the afterlife.
(c) She fears that she is pregnant by Nero.
(d) She knows that, according to the prophecy, she will kill Nero.
4. Upon whom must Tantalus loose the Fury?
(a) The House of Pelops.
(b) The House of Priam.
(c) The House of Aeneas.
(d) The House of Menelaus.
5. Who enters at the end of the second act of "Phaedra"?
(a) Creon.
(b) Theseus.
(c) Hippolytus.
(d) Tiresias.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Phaedra die?
2. How does Hippolytus die?
3. From where did Oedipus come?
4. To what does the ghost in "Octavia" object?
5. To whom does Hippolytus pray in the preface of "Phaedra"?
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