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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What literary form does the Chorus use to describe the destruction and violation of the city's moral?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Farce.
(c) Burlesque.
(d) Prose.

2. Plays based on Greek legend usually involve a generation after generation repeating a ______.
(a) Resistance.
(b) Crime.
(c) Fable.
(d) Story.

3. Eteocles tells the men that the battle has ______.
(a) Is over.
(b) Hasn't started.
(c) Gone badly.
(d) Gone well.

4. Men see the act of combat as _________.
(a) Gruesome.
(b) Horrifying.
(c) Glorious.
(d) Duty.

5. The Chorus uses all of the following likening the destruction and violation of the city to the destruction and violation of a woman except:
(a) Intellectual.
(b) Spiritual.
(c) Moral.
(d) Physical.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Eteocles pray to in the beginning of part 1?

2. Who exclaims, "Their breasts exposed to the conqueror's view?"

3. The Chorus refers to the attacks against the city of Thebes as _______.

4. What is a Spinx?

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

(see the answer key)

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