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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Jason say dealing with Medea is hopeless?
(a) She is too stubborn and outspoken.
(b) She won't ever tell him what she really thinks.
(c) He can't understand her through her thick accent.
(d) He loves her too much to hurt her.

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

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

5. What does Medea think about the way women are treated by men in Greece?
(a) They are treated very badly in general.
(b) They are treated with the same tolerance as children.
(c) They are treated worse than slaves.
(d) They are treated well enough.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aegeus know when he swears the oath to Medea?

2. Medea longs to go to what place that she's forbidden to visit?

3. Which character caused Medea's rage?

4. What plans are made regarding Medea in order to facilitate the wedding?

5. What does Medea promise Jason she will do after she sees him the second time?

(see the answer key)

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