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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Eteocles instructs the Chorus to pray for ________ instead of safety?
(a) Suffrage.
(b) Reconciliation.
(c) Strength.
(d) Peace.

2. Who solves the Riddle of the Spinx?
(a) Laius.
(b) Oedipus.
(c) Polyneices.
(d) Ismene.

3. Eteocles reaction was so extreme to whom because of his angry determination to save and protect the city?
(a) Polyneices.
(b) The women.
(c) His army.
(d) King of Argos.

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

5. Who is the young general with an almost feminine beauty but a vicious temper?
(a) Hyperbios.
(b) Parthenopaios.
(c) Tydeus.
(d) Polyneices.

Short Answer Questions

1. Imagery throughout the play is based on ________.

2. Who is the King of Thebes at the opening of part 1?

3. Who represents the way that Eteocles has followed his own will which he honors more than he honors the will of the gods?

4. Who is Tydeus?

5. What is an ode?

(see the answer key)

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