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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is "unmoved by the sound of snorting horses?"
(a) Eteoklos.
(b) Oedipus.
(c) Megareus.
(d) Polyphontes.

2. Who persuades his father-in-law to join with him and win the throne of Thebes by force?
(a) Eteocles.
(b) Laius.
(c) Polyneices.
(d) Ismene.

3. Who represents Eteocles' own blindness and bad judgment?
(a) Tydeus.
(b) The soul.
(c) The Spinx.
(d) The mind.

4. How are Antigone and Ismene related to Eteocles and Polyneices?
(a) They are their wives.
(b) They are their sisters.
(c) They are their aunts.
(d) They are their daughters.

5. In the opening of the Background, Laius has kidnapped, assaulted and murdered ______ son?
(a) Oedipus'.
(b) Pelops'.
(c) Eteocles'.
(d) Polyneices'.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is "this one man most of all defended the city kept the ship steady?"

2. According the Chorus, Eteocles and Polyneices are finally united ___________.

3. Any citizen in the _____ would know the story, or myth, that "Seven Against Thebes" is based on.

4. Who does Eteocles call upon to fight to protect the land and the city of Thebes?

5. Where does Polyneices go to marry a princess?

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