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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Hippolytus": How does Phaedra kill herself?
(a) Jumping from the roof.
(b) Poison.
(c) Stabbing.
(d) Hanging.

2. "Medea": What does Jason claim Medea has learned which makes her better off for his bringing her to Greece?
(a) The value of friendship.
(b) The value of justice.
(c) The value of knowledge.
(d) The value of strength.

3. "Alcestis": What does the chorus think the upcoming death Admetus's wife is like?
(a) Sealing.
(b) Gift.
(c) Sacrifice.
(d) Farce.

4. "Hippolytus": Where is Hippolytus's father in exile?
(a) Thebes.
(b) Gransten.
(c) Troezen.
(d) Aleceadis.

5. "Medea": Who is Medea?
(a) A Greek sorceress.
(b) A Greek priestess.
(c) A non-Greek priestess.
(d) A non-Greek sorceress.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Medea": What does Medea claim about women?

2. "Hippolytus": Who tells Phaedra that mortals cannot control the will of the gods?

3. "Medea": What reason does Medea give Creon for staying one more day?

4. "Hippolytus": Hippolytus's father is in exile to pay penance for a crime committed where?

5. "Alcestis": Pheres says that no man wishes to die. What does he suggest is better?

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