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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the purpose of the first section of the play?
(a) To introduce every character in the play.
(b) To offer background information.
(c) To make the audience laugh before the tragedy begins.
(d) To apologize for any parts the audience may not like.

2. Why does Medea feel immigrant women need to work particularly hard?
(a) They don't have the same rights as citizens.
(b) They are never fully welcome or at home.
(c) They don't know the language and have to overcome the barrier.
(d) They are looked down on as second-class citizens.

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

4. Why does Medea promise she won't hurt Creon?
(a) He is only a father giving away his daughter to a good man.
(b) She is afraid of him and his soldiers.
(c) He has been a friend to her and she wouldn't betray his trust.
(d) He is too powerful and if she tried she would surely fail.

5. What does the chorus comment that they can hear in Medea's cries?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Anger.
(c) Venom.
(d) Pain.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Medea say Creon's mercy was foolish?

3. How does Medea think women generally feel?

4. Who appears to check on Medea after hearing her cries?

5. What does the chorus express about Medea's anger toward Jason?

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