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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was young Tantalus murdered?
(a) He was drowned.
(b) His throat was cut.
(c) He was thrown from a tower.
(d) He was disemboweled.

2. What is Tiresias' occupation?
(a) Prophet.
(b) Priest.
(c) Weaponsmith.
(d) Herald.

3. Why does the messenger in the fourth act urge Oedipus to leave the city?
(a) Oedipus is about to be betrayed.
(b) Oedipus must flee the plague.
(c) Oedipus must take Polybus' throne.
(d) Oedipus is the reason for the plague.

4. For whom do Hecuba and the chorus lament, though they say nothing will ever adequately express their loss?
(a) Priam.
(b) Achilles.
(c) Paris.
(d) Hector.

5. What does Nero order as his wife's fate?
(a) Exile to a distant shore and execution.
(b) Slave to Poppaea.
(c) Public execution.
(d) Sacrifice to Jove.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nero claim about his wife to Seneca in "Octavia"?

2. What deception must Helen play on Polyxena?

3. What is Talthybius' station among the Greeks?

4. How does Hippolytus die?

5. Whose heads does Nero order to be brought to him in the second act of "Octavia"?

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