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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does Hecuba predict will not find peace for a long time?
(a) Ulysses.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Pyrrhus.
(d) Menelaus.

2. For what purpose does Tiresias wish to take a particular action after he is unable to clarify the Oracle's message?
(a) Zeus will listen to and answer his prayers.
(b) The ghost can reveal his murderer.
(c) The Oracle can explain herself to him.
(d) Tiresias' willing sacrifice will end the plague.

3. From where did Oedipus come?
(a) Thebes.
(b) Troy.
(c) Rome.
(d) Corinth.

4. For whom do Hecuba and the chorus lament, though they say nothing will ever adequately express their loss?
(a) Hector.
(b) Paris.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Priam.

5. Why does the nurse claim to be dressed in a particular manner in the third act of "Phaedra"?
(a) She is joining the hunt.
(b) Phaedra wants to die.
(c) She has joined the temple of Apollo.
(d) She is going to be wed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Oedipus' father in Corinth?

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

3. How does Atreus protect his sons from sharing the blame for his plot against Thyestes?

4. Who does Andromache blame for the fall of Troy?

5. Upon what did Hippolytus' horses run when escaping the attacking creature?

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