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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What news does the Scout return to Eteocles with in the beginning of part 3?
(a) The armies have turned away from the gates of Thebes.
(b) The armies are outside the gates of Thebes.
(c) The armies just left the gate of Thebes.
(d) The armies are on their way to the gates of Thebes.

2. What is the genre of Seven Against Thebes?
(a) Tragedy.
(b) Comedy.
(c) Short-Story.
(d) Melodrama.

3. Who does Eteocles send to face the third general?
(a) Hekate.
(b) Megareus.
(c) Hippomedon.
(d) Dikes.

4. Who conspires to kill Oedipus at the end of the Background section?
(a) Eteocles and Polyneices.
(b) The Spinx.
(c) King of Argos.
(d) Ismene.

5. Who is the goddess of justice?
(a) Dike.
(b) Antigone.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Aktor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who persuades his father-in-law to join with him and win the throne of Thebes by force?

2. Who represents Eteocles' own blindness and bad judgment?

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.

4. Eteocles' and Oedipus' story is playing out the curse originally laid on ___________.

5. Eteocles instructs the Chorus to pray for ________ instead of safety?

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