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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the chorus, what does excessive love bring?
(a) Dangerous passion and foolishness.
(b) Pain for everyone involved.
(c) Destruction of reason.
(d) Either great happiness or great despair.

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

3. What does Creon, despite his actions, believe compassion leads to?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Popularity.
(c) Revenge.
(d) Suffering.

4. From whom were Medea's wedding gifts supposedly procured?
(a) They are family heirlooms.
(b) The sun god.
(c) Aphrodite.
(d) An Asian queen.

5. What happens when Medea puts her children's hands in Jason's?
(a) She tells them to go with him forever.
(b) She begins crying.
(c) Jason doesn't want to hold their hands.
(d) They stain Jason's hands with the ink from their lessons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Nurse feel is best for people?

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

3. Why is Aegeus going to see his friend?

4. Whom else does Medea decide to kill after Aegeus leaves?

5. Why does Medea first consent to leave her home and meet with the chorus?

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