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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Tantalus serve as a meal to the gods?
(a) Atreus.
(b) Plisthenes.
(c) Pelops.
(d) Thyestes.

2. What does Hippolytus prefer over social interactions?
(a) Meaningless relationships.
(b) Politics.
(c) The outdoors.
(d) Battle.

3. At the start of "Phaedra," where is Theseus?
(a) Mount Olympus.
(b) Corinth.
(c) Thebes.
(d) The Underworld.

4. How did Astyanax defy the Greeks at his death?
(a) He jumped out of the tower before they could throw him out.
(b) He stabbed himself so that they cannot throw him from the tower.
(c) He prayed to Zeus as he died.
(d) He escaped from the Greeks and threw himself in the sea.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Phaedra confide her desire for Hippolytus?

2. What does Agamemnon claim as being forbidden, due to shame and honor?

3. In what state is Tantalus in the first act of "Thyestes"?

4. Upon what were Thyestes' sons sacrificed?

5. In the fourth act of "Phaedra," what new character enters the play?

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