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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the chorus sing about at the end of the first act of "Phaedra"?
(a) They sing about the transcendent nature of death.
(b) They sing about Aphrodite's influence over Phaedra.
(c) They sing about the unnatural love Phaedra has for Hippolytus.
(d) They sing about how every living creatures will surrender to love eventually.

2. In what sort of garb is Phaedra's nurse dressed in the third act?
(a) Mourning garb.
(b) Wedding dress.
(c) Priestess robes.
(d) Hunting garb.

3. Why does Helen claim she is in a worse position than the Trojan women?
(a) The Trojans and the Greeks both hate her.
(b) She is pregnant by Paris and Menelaus will doubtlessly kill the child.
(c) She is cursed by the gods.
(d) She will be forced back to Menelaus in chains.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Phaedra finally admit to Theseus at the end of the play?

2. According to the chorus in the third act of "Phaedra," what no longer governs mankind?

3. According to Calchas, why must Polyxena and Astyanax die?

4. Whose priests gave Oedipus the prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother?

5. Because of the plague, what does Oedipus consider doing because he is unable to stop it in the first act of the play?

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