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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Atreus angry about being unable to avenge?
(a) His brother's insults.
(b) His father's death.
(c) His son's death.
(d) The pestilence deaths of his subjects.

2. What does Oedipus believe about himself in the fifth act?
(a) The gods must hate him.
(b) He is not even human anymore.
(c) He is fit to neither live or die.
(d) He deserves to live among the animals.

3. How did Astyanax defy the Greeks at his death?
(a) He prayed to Zeus as he died.
(b) He escaped from the Greeks and threw himself in the sea.
(c) He jumped out of the tower before they could throw him out.
(d) He stabbed himself so that they cannot throw him from the tower.

4. Where does Oedipus send Creon?
(a) The Oracle at Delphi.
(b) The Underworld.
(c) Troy.
(d) Corinth.

5. For what does Hecuba pray?
(a) Hope.
(b) Ulysses' death.
(c) Polyxena's soul.
(d) Death.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Tantalus attempt to warn about their impending deaths?

2. What is Thyestes doing at the end of the fourth act?

3. How does Jocasta kill herself?

4. Who is Hecuba?

5. What happened when Polyxena was sacrificed in honor of Achilles?

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