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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does the Nurse send the children inside after hearing the Tutor's news?
(a) She is afraid Medea may take her anger out on them.
(b) It is time for their baths before supper.
(c) She doesn't want them hearing more gossip about their parents.
(d) She wants some time alone with the Tutor.

3. How did Medea save Jason's life?
(a) She discovered a leak aboard the Argo that could have drowned him.
(b) She enabled him to get the Golden Fleece and escape alive.
(c) She convinced him to stop adventuring away from home.
(d) She killed a traitor among his men that was plotting his death.

4. What does Jason think influences women's judgment?
(a) The warmth and intimacy of love..
(b) Their inability to see reason.
(c) Other women and children.
(d) The sun, the moon, and the tides of the sea.

5. What are the women of this play communally struggling against?
(a) The ability to be a good mother while having to work.
(b) The desire to kill men for their betrayals.
(c) The balance between independence and homemaking.
(d) The prejudices against women in ancient Greece.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Medea feel immigrant women need to work particularly hard?

2. Who orders Medea to leave with her children?

3. What word best describes Medea's emotional reaction to Creon?

4. What supernatural ability is Medea said to have?

5. What has Jason agreed to do while Medea and her children are in exile?

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