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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To whom does Hippolytus pray in the preface of "Phaedra"?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Diana.
(d) Athena.

3. According to the chorus in the third act of "Phaedra," what no longer governs mankind?
(a) Love.
(b) Fate.
(c) Justice.
(d) Kindness.

4. Which of the following is not one of Thyestes' sons?
(a) One son stays unnamed.
(b) Plisthenes.
(c) Tantalus.
(d) Agamemnon.

5. Why does the nurse claim to be dressed in a particular manner in the third act of "Phaedra"?
(a) She is going to be wed.
(b) Phaedra wants to die.
(c) She is joining the hunt.
(d) She has joined the temple of Apollo.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Atreus plan to lure Thyestes to his castle?

2. How does Theseus feel upon learning of his son's death?

3. Who is the father of Tantulus?

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

5. Who is Theseus' first wife?

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