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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Phaedra respond when Theseus demands to know why she is apparently suicidal?
(a) She begins to scream.
(b) She tries to make love to him.
(c) She would rather die than confide in him about the "evil" someone did to her.
(d) She tries to throw herself out the window.

2. To whom does Phaedra confide her desire for Hippolytus?
(a) Theseus.
(b) Hippolytus' nurse.
(c) Hippolytus' sister.
(d) Her daughter.

3. What does Agamemnon claim about Achilles' behavior during battle?
(a) He was a coward.
(b) He helped the Trojans whenever the Greeks angered him.
(c) He won the war for them.
(d) He killed people on both sides of the battle.

4. What is being destroyed on Nero's wedding day in protest?
(a) The military barracks.
(b) Statues of Poppaea.
(c) Temples.
(d) Anything with Nero's likeness.

5. What real life person is written into the play as a character?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Seneca.
(c) Aristophanes.
(d) Aristotle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What course of action does Tiresias propose he take in order to help avenge the king's murder?

2. What is the chorus in the fifth act of "Oedipus" questioning when they learn about their king's punishment?

3. Whose heads does Nero order to be brought to him in the second act of "Octavia"?

4. What actions did the old shepherd perform before the beginning of "Oedipus"?

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

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