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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Aktor related to Hyperbios?
(a) They are sisters.
(b) They are brothers.
(c) They are cousins.
(d) They are brothers-in-law.

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

3. To try to escape the will of the gods is considered ___________.
(a) Tough.
(b) Impossible.
(c) Courageous.
(d) Achievable.

4. Who is the second general Eteocles sends out?
(a) Hippomedon.
(b) Megareus.
(c) Polyphontes.
(d) Lasthenes.

5. The Chorus formally pray to Zeus and the other gods, asking them _____________.
(a) Where they should go if the city is destroyed.
(b) Who is going to win the battle.
(c) How should the army fight.
(d) Who is going to be the new king.

6. Who does Eteocles send to face Tydeus?
(a) Megareus.
(b) Melanippus.
(c) Eteoklos.
(d) Parthenopaios.

7. 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 Eteocles.
(b) The safety of the children.
(c) The safety of their husbands.
(d) The safety of themselves.

8. Eteocles and the Chorus express themselves through which literary element?
(a) Irony.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Imagery.
(d) Personification.

9. Who does Eteocles consider a "loyal and true son of Thebes?"
(a) Hippomedon.
(b) Amphiaraos.
(c) Tydeus.
(d) Hyperbios.

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

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

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

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

14. Traditionally, males are more concerned with _______.
(a) Their social standing.
(b) Women.
(c) Their children.
(d) Battle itself.

15. Women see the act of combat as something that causes ___________.
(a) Pain.
(b) Pleasure.
(c) Pride.
(d) Joy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Tydeus forbidden to cross the river?

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

3. Who represents Eteocles' stubbornness while his shield represents Eteocles' passions?

4. Who promises to "bring this man [Polyneices] to his harbor, and he shall enjoy his father's city?"

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

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