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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is significant about Hecuba's exit at the end of the play?
(a) It infers that she has committed suicide.
(b) It infers that she will be staying in Troy.
(c) It infers that the gods have taken her away with them.
(d) It infers that she is going to murder Ulysses.

2. What does Phaedra's nurse lament in the beginning of the second act?
(a) Hippolytus' disdain of women.
(b) Phaedra's planned suicide.
(c) Phaedra's plan to seduce Hippolytus.
(d) Theseus' death.

3. According to Pyrrhus, who was most afraid of Achilles?
(a) Paris.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Priam.
(d) Hector.

4. On what does Octavia blame her misfortunes?
(a) Her mother's second marriage.
(b) Her brother's curse.
(c) Her father's impiety.
(d) Her own mistakes.

5. At the end of the third act of "Phaedra," the chorus cries, "Why dost thou dwell afar,/ All too indifferent to men,/ Not anxious to bring blessing to the good,/ And to the evil, bane"? About what is the chorus lamenting?
(a) Phaedra has committed suicide.
(b) Hippolytus has tried to kill his father.
(c) Phaedra falsely accused Hippolytus of rape.
(d) Hippolytus has been murdered.

Short Answer Questions

1. What deception must Helen play on Polyxena?

2. Over what is Tantalus anguishing in the beginning of "Thyestes"?

3. How does Atreus justify his wicked plans against his brother?

4. What does Creon advise Oedipus to do after the former relays the message from the murdered king?

5. What message does the ghost of Jocasta's husband send?

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