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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What will happen if Medea and her children are in Corinth at sunrise in two days?
(a) They will be forcibly banished.
(b) They will be allowed to stay for the festival.
(c) They will be killed.
(d) Jason will have to claim them as his family.

2. What does the Nurse feel is best for people?
(a) Expressing feelings openly and without reserve.
(b) Getting anger out so it doesn't fester.
(c) Open and honest communication.
(d) Moderation in all things.

3. What has Jason said is his intent with regard to his children?
(a) He intends to move them in with him and his new wife.
(b) He wants them to be shipped back to Medea's homeland.
(c) He wants to send them away for military training.
(d) He doesn't intend to help support them.

4. What does Medea think about the way women are treated by men in Greece?
(a) They are treated very badly in general.
(b) They are treated worse than slaves.
(c) They are treated well enough.
(d) They are treated with the same tolerance as children.

5. What bargain does Medea strike with Creon?
(a) That she can stay one more day.
(b) That her children must leave but she can stay.
(c) That she doesn't have to leave for a year.
(d) That she can stay as a servant to Creon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the chorus comment that they can hear in Medea's cries?

2. What does the chorus, after hearing Medea's plans, say about relations between men and women?

3. What is the Nurse's reaction when she learns what Jason thinks about the plan involving Medea?

4. What does the Nurse fear at the beginning of the play?

5. Why does the author emphasize several times that Medea is a "stranger in a strange land"?

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