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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The Chorus uses all of the following likening the destruction and violation of the city to the destruction and violation of a woman except:
(a) Moral.
(b) Intellectual.
(c) Physical.
(d) Spiritual.

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

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

5. What literary form does the Chorus use to describe the destruction and violation of the city's moral?
(a) Prose.
(b) Farce.
(c) Burlesque.
(d) Imagery.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The Chorus briefly gives in to fear and imagines what will happen to the city if what occurs?

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

4. Who urges Eteocles not to "take on the violence of your brother?"

5. According to the Chorus, what are the Gods a source of?

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