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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does the author emphasize several times that Medea is a "stranger in a strange land"?
(a) It makes it easier to see why she doesn't have many friends.
(b) It shows that she might not understand that murder is illegal.
(c) It reveals that Jason probably left her due to cultural differences.
(d) It makes her character more sympathetic.

3. In the time the play was written, what would the audience have typically known before coming to the theater?
(a) The end of the story.
(b) When to applaud.
(c) The names of the actors involved.
(d) The story of the play.

4. What prevents Medea from returning to her homeland?
(a) There is no ship that will go there.
(b) She is forbidden from returning by Creon.
(c) Her pride.
(d) She is a criminal there.

5. What prevents Creon from helping Medea or seeing her point of view?
(a) His love for his daughter and desire to see her happy.
(b) His beliefs about women and their role in society.
(c) His strong friendship with Jason.
(d) His desire to rid his kingdom of a foreign menace.

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

7. Which character caused Medea's rage?
(a) The Nurse.
(b) Creon.
(c) Jason.
(d) Aegeus.

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

9. Why doesn't Creon trust Medea's reasons for allowing her to stay?
(a) She sounds too angry to be able to live there peacefully.
(b) He thinks she is clever enough to be manipulative.
(c) He has heard stories about her and thinks she is a liar.
(d) They don't sound real to him.

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

11. What does Medea think about women who have been wronged by a lover?
(a) They are capable of extreme violence.
(b) They are at fault for not pleasing their man.
(c) They need support from the government to get by.
(d) They are weak victims that need protection.

12. 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) It's not specifically said, but she is called a witch.
(d) She is able to read thoughts and project her own.

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

14. Who appears to check on Medea after hearing her cries?
(a) The chorus.
(b) Aegeus.
(c) Medea's children.
(d) Jason.

15. What does Jason offer Medea towards the end of their argument?
(a) A golden ring to sell for money.
(b) Money to support herself and the children.
(c) Nothing.
(d) An opportunity to stay in the city.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jason believe Medea gained by coming to his homeland?

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

3. What does the chorus do when they learn of Medea's plans for revenge?

4. What does Jason say he has done on Medea's behalf?

5. What stands in the way of Medea enacting her plans immediately?

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