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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Nurse feel is best for people?
(a) Open and honest communication.
(b) Moderation in all things.
(c) Expressing feelings openly and without reserve.
(d) Getting anger out so it doesn't fester.

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

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

4. Why does Medea say Creon's mercy was foolish?
(a) Showing mercy is a sign of weakness.
(b) One day isn't enough time for her to take care of her children.
(c) It gives her enough time to break up Jason and his new wife.
(d) One day is enough time to exact her revenge.

5. How does Medea think women generally feel?
(a) Comforted and happy.
(b) Fearful and vengeful.
(c) Happy and maternal.
(d) Fearful and defenseless.

6. What is the Nurse's reaction when she learns what Jason thinks about the plan involving Medea?
(a) She is enraged.
(b) She is surprised.
(c) She is upset for Medea.
(d) She doesn't really care.

7. What will happen if Medea and her children are in Corinth at sunrise in two days?
(a) They will be forcibly banished.
(b) They will be allowed to stay for the festival.
(c) Jason will have to claim them as his family.
(d) They will be killed.

8. What theme, central to the play, does the chorus frequently reiterate?
(a) That children are weapons against a mother.
(b) That marriages are doomed to fail.
(c) That women cannot be trusted.
(d) That men always betray women.

9. Why does Medea feel immigrant women need to work particularly hard?
(a) They are never fully welcome or at home.
(b) They don't have the same rights as citizens.
(c) They are looked down on as second-class citizens.
(d) They don't know the language and have to overcome the barrier.

10. What does Jason believe Medea gained by coming to his homeland?
(a) Pain and Misfortune.
(b) Money and Fame.
(c) Civilization and Honor.
(d) Status and Prestige.

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

12. What does the Nurse fear at the beginning of the play?
(a) She will lose her job in the divorce.
(b) Medea will take violent revenge.
(c) The children will be upset when they see their parents fighting.
(d) Jason will kill Medea for being too contrary.

13. What does Jason say he has done on Medea's behalf?
(a) Tried to intercede with Creon.
(b) Convinced his new wife Medea is harmless.
(c) Taken her from a barbaric land.
(d) Encouraged the neighbors to befriend her.

14. Who did the Tutor overhear making plans?
(a) Jason.
(b) Creon.
(c) Aegeus.
(d) Medea.

15. What has Creon's experience been with showing mercy?
(a) It makes him many new friends.
(b) It yields large rewards in terms of public opinion.
(c) It gets him into trouble.
(d) It makes him look weak.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jason think influences women's judgment?

2. How did Medea save Jason's life?

3. What makes Creon sympathetic as a character?

4. Why does Jason claim Medea should think his plan is good?

5. What did Medea persuade the king's daughters to do in order to let Jason leave with the Fleece?

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