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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Eteocles suggest the Chorus pray about?
(a) That the children remain safe.
(b) That the walls remain standing.
(c) That the war will end soon.
(d) That his army will grow.

2. Eteocles explains that praying is not the problem of the Chorus, but the way they are praying since they are praying for what?
(a) The safety of the children.
(b) The safety of Eteocles.
(c) The safety of their husbands.
(d) The safety of themselves.

3. What symbol is on Amphiaraos' shield?
(a) A Dove.
(b) The Typhon.
(c) Nothing.
(d) The Spinx.

4. Who is the second general that says that he will destroy the city whether it is the gods' will or not?
(a) Kapaneus.
(b) Polyphontes.
(c) Eteoklos.
(d) Melanippus.

5. What does Eteocles accuse the Chorus of being?
(a) Brave.
(b) Disloyal.
(c) Cowards.
(d) Liars.

6. Who represents Eteocles' stubbornness while his shield represents Eteocles' passions?
(a) Tydeus.
(b) Kapaneus.
(c) Eteoklos.
(d) Parthenopaios.

7. Who is Tydeus?
(a) Eteocles' general.
(b) The 1st enemy general.
(c) The son of Thebes.
(d) A giant.

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

9. What imagery does the Chorus use to illustrate the situation of Eteocles and his family?
(a) The waves.
(b) A ship.
(c) The throne.
(d) The ocean.

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

11. Who says, "When they are brave, they are insolent and intolerable, and when they are frightened, they are rash and dangerous?"
(a) Polyneices.
(b) Eteocles.
(c) Eteocles' soldiers.
(d) The Chorus.

12. Who urges Eteocles not to "take on the violence of your brother?"
(a) Antigone.
(b) The Chorus.
(c) Dike.
(d) Ismene.

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

14. Eteocles vows not to be afraid of Tydeus and does all of the following except:
(a) Charges Tydeus with deafness.
(b) Ridicules the prophet.
(c) Charges Tydeus with bad judgement.
(d) Charges Tydeus with blindness .

15. Eteocles' and Oedipus' story is playing out the curse originally laid on ___________.
(a) Laius.
(b) Polyneices.
(c) Oedipus.
(d) Eteocles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the Chorus say that they come to the square to pray?

2. Who is the fourth general the Scout describes as constantly shouting out his war cry and acting almost insane with blood lust?

3. What term does Eteocles and the Chorus use to describe the city of Thebes?

4. What is an ode?

5. Traditionally, males are more concerned with _______.

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