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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does Hecuba predict will not find peace for a long time?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Pyrrhus.
(c) Ulysses.
(d) Menelaus.

2. Why is Andromache jealous of Polyxena?
(a) Polyxena has accepted her fate.
(b) Polyxena has been blessed by Zeus.
(c) Polyxena will die on her native soil.
(d) Polyxena will be treated as a princess in her marriage.

3. How does Phaedra die?
(a) Neptune's sea bull throws her in the sea.
(b) Theseus kills her.
(c) She dies from grief.
(d) She commits suicide.

4. How did Astyanax's bravery affect Ulysses and the Greeks?
(a) They mocked him.
(b) They prayed to the gods for mercy.
(c) They cried out of pity,
(d) They saluted him.

5. Why can Ulysses not spare Astyanax?
(a) Astyanax needs to join his father in the afterlife.
(b) Ulysses will be killed by Agamemnon if he does not comply with orders.
(c) Astyanax can rightfully claim to be an heir to the Spartan throne.
(d) Calchas demands the sacrifice.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what does Hecuba pray?

2. According to the chorus in the third act of "Phaedra," what no longer governs mankind?

3. At the end of the second act of "Phaedra," in what does the chorus hope Hippolytus will find comfort?

4. About what does a Trojan elder instruct Andromache to lie?

5. In the second act of "Oedipus," what knowledge does Creon relate that will end the plague?

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