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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Phaedra's confidante try to dissuade her from doing?
(a) Acting on her attraction to Hippolytus.
(b) Ignoring her feelings for Hippolytus.
(c) Leaving the city to escape her desire.
(d) Suicide.

2. How does Ulysses trick Andromache into revealing Astyanax's location?
(a) He claims Hector's tomb must be torn down.
(b) He watches her eyes as she looks around for him.
(c) He pretends to leave but watches her walk into the tomb.
(d) He suggests that the boy is a coward.

3. From where does the messenger in the fourth act come in "Oedipus"?
(a) Troy.
(b) Thebes.
(c) Corinth.
(d) Sparta.

4. Where does Andromache hide her son?
(a) The caves by the edge of the city.
(b) The marketplace.
(c) The temple of Apollo.
(d) Hector's tomb.

5. Who is Theseus' first wife?
(a) Andromache.
(b) Hyppolyta.
(c) Cassandra.
(d) Jocasta.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who enters at the end of the second act of "Phaedra"?

2. According to Hecuba, what was ignored before the fall of Troy?

3. What is plaguing Thebes?

4. What is the only reason that Creon reveals the information he gained from Tiresias after summoning the ghost?

5. Why is Creon sent away at the end of the first act of "Oedipus"?

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