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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ulysses trick Andromache into revealing Astyanax's location?
(a) He pretends to leave but watches her walk into the tomb.
(b) He claims Hector's tomb must be torn down.
(c) He watches her eyes as she looks around for him.
(d) He suggests that the boy is a coward.

2. How does Jocasta kill herself?
(a) She hangs herself.
(b) Fire.
(c) She throws herself out of a tower.
(d) Oedipus' sword.

3. Who was murdered before the beginning of "Oedipus"?
(a) King Agamemnon.
(b) King Priam.
(c) King Polybus.
(d) King Laius.

4. Upon whom must Tantalus loose the Fury?
(a) The House of Aeneas.
(b) The House of Priam.
(c) The House of Menelaus.
(d) The House of Pelops.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon what did Hippolytus' horses run when escaping the attacking creature?

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

3. What does Atreus do to his nephews' bodies?

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

5. What does Atreus offer to Thyestes when the latter apologizes for his misdeeds against him?

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