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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Hecuba tell the chorus they must not do in regards to Priam?
(a) Betray his memory.
(b) Speak unkindly against him.
(c) Pity him.
(d) Remember him as frail.

3. What is the station of Theseus' first wife?
(a) Queen of Thebes.
(b) Queen of Sparta.
(c) Queen of the Amazons.
(d) Princess of Troy.

4. What does the nurse show Theseus when he demands to know why Phaedra is determined to die in the third act?
(a) The blood on their bedsheets.
(b) Hippolytus' armor.
(c) Phaedra's torn dress.
(d) Hippolytus' sword.

5. Upon what were Thyestes' sons sacrificed?
(a) The weapons of their ancestors.
(b) An altar.
(c) Their grandfather's tomb.
(d) A pyre.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Thyestes feel about his impending meeting with his brother?

2. How does Ulysses trick Andromache into revealing Astyanax's location?

3. What does Oedipus believe about himself in the fifth act?

4. What parts of Thyestes' sons are presented to Thyestes as a gift?

5. To where is Thyestes traveling in the third act?

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