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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What parts of Thyestes' sons are presented to Thyestes as a gift?
(a) Their heads.
(b) Their livers.
(c) Their hearts.
(d) Their hands.

2. What does Atreus do to his nephews' bodies?
(a) He prepares them as a meal for their father.
(b) He buries them.
(c) He feeds them to the pigs.
(d) He burns them.

3. According to the ghost, what will end the plague?
(a) Oedipus sacrificing himself to Zeus.
(b) Jocasta's death.
(c) Oedipus' departure from Thebes.
(d) Creon's ascension to the throne.

4. Who commands Tantalus to cast his chaos upon others?
(a) The Fury.
(b) The Gorgons.
(c) Hades.
(d) Zeus.

5. Who is Hecuba?
(a) Queen of Troy.
(b) Queen of Thebes.
(c) Queen of Sparta.
(d) Queen of the Amazons.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hippolytus die?

2. How are the Greeks dividing the captive Trojan women among themselves?

3. Whom does Hecuba predict will not find peace for a long time?

4. According to Hecuba, what was ignored before the fall of Troy?

5. According to Andromache, what is the worst fate for a Trojan woman?

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