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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Medea believe Jason looked for another woman?
(a) He wants to marry into money.
(b) He is embarrassed by Medea.
(c) They are no longer intimate.
(d) He isn't able to have more children with Medea.

3. What function does the chorus's ode serve after the fight between Medea and Creon?
(a) It offers more exposition to explain what is happening.
(b) It gives the audience a breather from the intensity of the scene.
(c) It illuminates the subtext behind the relationship between the two.
(d) It gives time for a scene change.

4. Who explains why Medea is crying to the chorus?
(a) The Tutor.
(b) The boys.
(c) Medea.
(d) The Nurse.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Medea think about Jason's argument for his actions?

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

3. Which character caused Medea's rage?

4. How does Medea think women generally feel?

5. What is the purpose of the first section of the play?

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