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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Agamemnon claim about Achilles' behavior during battle?
(a) He won the war for them.
(b) He was a coward.
(c) He helped the Trojans whenever the Greeks angered him.
(d) He killed people on both sides of the battle.

3. Who kills Polyxena?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Ulysses.
(c) Pyrrhus.
(d) Menelaus.

4. According to the chorus at the end of "Octavia," what is an enemy of man?
(a) Justice.
(b) Time.
(c) Death.
(d) Life.

5. How does Atreus protect his sons from sharing the blame for his plot against Thyestes?
(a) Atreus sends them away.
(b) Atreus keeps them completely ignorant of the plan.
(c) Atreus pleads with Zeus to keep them ignorant.
(d) Atreus lies to them about his plan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Phaedra's confidante try to dissuade her from doing?

2. Who commands Tantalus to cast his chaos upon others?

3. About what does Hector warn Andromache in a dream?

4. In the first act of "Thyestes," what do the Fury claim to have planned for the wrongdoers?

5. What does the old shepherd reveal to Oedipus about his parentage?

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