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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Medea say about the value of being clever?
(a) That it is something women learn from birth in order to survive the men they meet.
(b) That it is the most important skill to get by in life and survive in a strange land.
(c) That it is on par with being moral, and only matters in the eye of the beholder.
(d) That it hasn't helped her very much, earning her enemies rather than friends.

2. What did Medea persuade the king's daughters to do in order to let Jason leave with the Fleece?
(a) Kill their father.
(b) Lie to the town police.
(c) Bribe an official to let him out of the city.
(d) Help Jason hide from the guards.

3. What stands in the way of Medea enacting her plans immediately?
(a) She has to take the time to prepare mentally.
(b) She needs to collect special herbs by moonlight.
(c) She can't get to her victims in the dark and must wait until morning.
(d) She needs a place to go afterwards.

4. What word best describes Medea's emotional reaction to Creon?
(a) Glee.
(b) Contempt.
(c) Apathy.
(d) Anger.

5. What two characters are getting divorced?
(a) Aegeus and Medea.
(b) Jason and Hecate.
(c) Medea and Creon.
(d) Jason and Medea.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What characters interrupt the Nurse's monologue?

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

4. What does the chorus tell Medea about men?

5. What does the chorus do when they learn of Medea's plans for revenge?

(see the answer key)

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