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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Plays based on Greek legend usually involve parents and children doing what?
(a) Losing contact with each other.
(b) Growing old together.
(c) Kill each other.
(d) Praising each other.

2. Traditionally, women are more concerned with _________.
(a) What happens after the battle.
(b) Their social standing.
(c) Raising the children.
(d) Their appearance.

3. To go against the will of the gods, or to make them angry, is to risk destruction. This is considered the _____ of the play.
(a) Moral.
(b) Scene.
(c) Theme.
(d) Plot.

4. At the end of the first year, what does Eteocles refused to do?
(a) Feed the hungry.
(b) Give up the throne.
(c) Find a wife.
(d) Fight the war.

5. "White haired" women, "housewives," and young virgins are all described to be ___________.
(a) Equal victims.
(b) Equal culprits.
(c) Equal criminals.
(d) Equal beings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Laius do to baby Oedipus after hearing the Oracle foretell Oedipus' future?

2. Where does Polyneices go to marry a princess?

3. Imagery is used throughout the play to describe the _______ of women.

4. The principle contrast in Part 2 is between what two objects?

5. Imagery throughout the play is based on ________.

(see the answer key)

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