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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Tiresias' occupation?
(a) Prophet.
(b) Weaponsmith.
(c) Priest.
(d) Herald.

2. For whom do Hecuba and the chorus lament, though they say nothing will ever adequately express their loss?
(a) Paris.
(b) Hector.
(c) Priam.
(d) Achilles.

3. What does Oedipus believe about himself in the fifth act?
(a) He is fit to neither live or die.
(b) He deserves to live among the animals.
(c) He is not even human anymore.
(d) The gods must hate him.

4. About what act is Theseus manipulated into believing occurred in his absence during the third act of "Phaedra"?
(a) Hippolytus raped Phaedra.
(b) Phaedra had a miscarriage.
(c) Hippolytus violently beat Phaedra for insolence.
(d) Phaedra has attempted suicide.

5. Who is Creon?
(a) Tiresias' brother.
(b) Jocasta's brother.
(c) Laius' brother.
(d) Oedipus' brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Hecuba?

2. For what does Hecuba pray?

3. How does Oedipus punish himself at the end of the play?

4. According to Talthybius, what did a prophet witness that suggests the sea mourns for Achilles?

5. Upon what did Hippolytus' horses run when escaping the attacking creature?

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