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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Pyrrhus angry at Agamemnon?
(a) Agamemnon refuses to accept responsibility for Achilles' death.
(b) Agamemnon refuses to acknowledge Pyrrhus as a warrior.
(c) Agamemnon refuses to take the Trojan women captive.
(d) Agamemnon has not sacrificed a maiden in honor Achilles.

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

3. Because of the plague, what does Oedipus consider doing because he is unable to stop it in the first act of the play?
(a) Abdicate the throne.
(b) Raise the ghost of the murdered king.
(c) Sacrifice himself to Zeus.
(d) Leave Thebes.

4. 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) Hippolytus has tried to kill his father.
(b) Hippolytus has been murdered.
(c) Phaedra falsely accused Hippolytus of rape.
(d) Phaedra has committed suicide.

5. What is plaguing Thebes?
(a) Pestilence.
(b) Drought.
(c) Floods.
(d) The Greeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the nurse show Theseus when he demands to know why Phaedra is determined to die in the third act?

2. Of what does Phaedra's nurse attempt to convince Hippolytus in the second act of "Phaedra"?

3. What emotion is Thyestes mysteriously experiencing in the beginning of the last act of "Thyestes"?

4. Who is Creon?

5. Why does the nurse claim to be dressed in a particular manner in the third act of "Phaedra"?

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