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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Iphigenia Among Taurians.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Medea": Medea states that women are generally timid. What does she say will make them become deadly?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Love.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Anger.

2. "Medea": What does Jason promise Medea he will provide for her?
(a) A father for his sons.
(b) A place to go.
(c) Love for his sons.
(d) A home and money.

3. "Ion": Which goddess appears to tell how Ion's descendants will settle many parts of Greece ?
(a) Artemis.
(b) Aphrodite.
(c) Hera.
(d) Athena.

4. "Andromache": Of whom is Andromache a widow?
(a) Hector.
(b) Achilles.
(c) Theseus.
(d) Perseus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. "Andromache": Where is Andromache from?

2. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Where does Iphigenia think her brother is when she is going to release one of the men to take a message to him?

3. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Which goddess appears and prevents the king from killing Iphigenia and Orestes?

4. "Trojan Women": Who joins Poseidon and says she has decided to attack the Greeks?

5. "Electra": The king has heard that Thessalians are master butchers of what?

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