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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Andromache": What is Andromache's relationship to Neoptolemos?
(a) None of the answers is correct.
(b) Wife.
(c) Slave.
(d) Nurse.

2. "Ion": At the beginning of the play, what action of Apollo's does Hermes describe?
(a) Waging war.
(b) Rape.
(c) Birth.
(d) Playing the lyre.

3. "Ion": What does Creusa put with the baby boy?
(a) A letter.
(b) Some jewelry.
(c) Some of her possessions.
(d) Some gold.

4. "Trojan Women": Hecuba laments the death of whom?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her goddess.
(c) Her country.
(d) Her family.

5. "Trojan Women": What is the name of Andromache's young son?
(a) Astyanax.
(b) Synthagarus.
(c) Lourdus.
(d) Jastian.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Hippolytus": What is Artemis the goddess of?

2. "Trojan Women": The play begins after the fall of what city?

3. "Andromache": Who is the son Peleus had with a goddess?

4. "Trojan Women": The Greeks have assembled the Trojan women who were spared death to become what?

5. "Ion": Who tells Creusa that she will never have a child with Xuthus?

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