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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom does the Nurse say Medea cries for comfort?
(a) The servants.
(b) Her children.
(c) The gods.
(d) Creon.

2. What would the chorus like Medea to do when they first arrive?
(a) Stop crying and tend her children.
(b) Find a way to revenge herself against her husband.
(c) Come out so they can comfort her.
(d) Go back to her homeland and leave her children behind.

3. What does the Nurse fear at the beginning of the play?
(a) Jason will kill Medea for being too contrary.
(b) Medea will take violent revenge.
(c) The children will be upset when they see their parents fighting.
(d) She will lose her job in the divorce.

4. Who did the Tutor overhear making plans?
(a) Creon.
(b) Jason.
(c) Medea.
(d) Aegeus.

5. What reaction does the Nurse have to Medea's pain?
(a) She pities Medea.
(b) She tells Medea it's her own fault.
(c) She sympathizes but wants Medea to stop crying.
(d) She thinks Medea is too emotional.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first character to appear in the play?

2. Medea longs to go to what place that she's forbidden to visit?

3. What characters interrupt the Nurse's monologue?

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

5. After the chorus first arrives, what prayer does Medea send to the gods?

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