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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Medea claim she is refusing Jason's money?
(a) Money gained from a bad man is no good.
(b) She can provide adequately for herself.
(c) She can get money from her family instead.
(d) He doesn't have enough to give her.

2. What characters interrupt the Nurse's monologue?
(a) Creon and his daughter.
(b) Aegeus and Creon.
(c) The Tutor and children.
(d) Jason and his lover.

3. What supernatural ability is Medea said to have?
(a) The ability to curse people to die horribly.
(b) The ability to foretell and change the future.
(c) She is able to read thoughts and project her own.
(d) It's not specifically said, but she is called a witch.

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

5. Why does Medea have no choice but to trust Jason?
(a) He can get her out of the country alive.
(b) A spell was placed on him that makes him tell the truth.
(c) He is the only person that speaks her language.
(d) She needs to provide for her children.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Jason offer Medea towards the end of their argument?

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

4. Why does Medea believe Jason looked for another woman?

5. What was Jason's mission when he and Medea met?

(see the answer key)

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