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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Oedipus send Creon?
(a) The Underworld.
(b) Troy.
(c) The Oracle at Delphi.
(d) Corinth.

3. To whom does Octavia pray as she awaits her exile?
(a) The gods of hell.
(b) Jove.
(c) Pluto.
(d) Jupiter.

4. What is the chorus in the fifth act of "Oedipus" questioning when they learn about their king's punishment?
(a) The hatred Oedipus must feel for himself.
(b) Humanity's tendencies to make mistakes.
(c) The justice of fate.
(d) The self-fulfilling nature of prophecies.

5. Whose heads does Nero order to be brought to him in the second act of "Octavia"?
(a) Plautus and Sulla.
(b) Britannicus and Claudius.
(c) Creon and Pyyrus.
(d) Astyanax and Atreus.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the Greeks dividing the captive Trojan women among themselves?

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

3. What news does the messenger give Oedipus in the fourth act?

4. What is Phaedra doing in the beginning of the fifth act?

5. What does Oedipus reveal to Jocasta at the end of the play?

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