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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Medea": What does Medea claim about women?
(a) That they are enslaved by motherhood.
(b) That they are unhappy for their slavery to their husbands.
(c) That they are unhappy if they don't realize their great power over their husbands.
(d) That they are wealthy in the joy of motherhood.

2. "Ion": Apollo orders Hermes to go to Athens. Where is he to bring the baby boy?
(a) To Corinth.
(b) To Damascus.
(c) To Delphi.
(d) To Sparta.

3. "Alcestis": Who is confused by Admetus's behavior towards Heracles?
(a) The children.
(b) The kingdom.
(c) Heracles and the chorus.
(d) Heracles and Pheres.

4. "Medea": Medea claims that women are the unhappiest creatures on earth for a second reason. What is the second reason?
(a) They have to live with men.
(b) They have to teach children.
(c) They have to live as mothers to children.
(d) They have to bear the terror of childbirth.

5. "Hippolytus": Who warns Hippolytus not to anger the other gods?
(a) An attendant.
(b) A friend.
(c) A nurse.
(d) A commoner.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Medea": Where did Jason and Medea travel to make a home and future for their children?

2. "Andromache": Where is Orestes from?

3. "Ion": How is Creusa supposed to kill Xuthus and Ion?

4. "Ion": Whose idea is it to have Ion adopted by Xuthus?

5. "Hippolytus": How does Phaedra kill herself?

Short Essay Questions

1. "Alcestis": What does the handmaiden think of Alcestis?

2. "Andromache": Why is Andromache taking refuge in the shrine of Thetis?

3. "Ion": What does the oracle tell Xuthus?

4. "Medea": What does the nurse learn while gossiping with the tutor?

5. "Medea": Why did Jason and Medea travel to Corinth?

6. "Alcestis": What is Pheres' claim about why he did not want to die?

7. "Hippolytus": What is Aphrodite raging against in her speech at the beginning of the play?

8. "Ion": How does Ion come to the temple of Apollo?

9. "Andromache": When Menelaus betrays Andromache when she leaves the shrine, what does she do?

10. "Ion": What makes Ion believe that Creusa is his mother?

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