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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Thyestes doing at the end of the fourth act?
(a) Preparing to kill his brother.
(b) Praying to Zeus.
(c) Eating the feast from his brother.
(d) Receiving counsel from the ghost of his father.

2. From where did Oedipus come?
(a) Rome.
(b) Troy.
(c) Thebes.
(d) Corinth.

3. At the end of the third act of "Phaedra," the chorus cries, "Why dost thou dwell afar,/ All too indifferent to men,/ Not anxious to bring blessing to the good,/ And to the evil, bane"? About what is the chorus lamenting?
(a) Hippolytus has been murdered.
(b) Phaedra falsely accused Hippolytus of rape.
(c) Hippolytus has tried to kill his father.
(d) Phaedra has committed suicide.

4. In what sort of garb is Phaedra's nurse dressed in the third act?
(a) Mourning garb.
(b) Hunting garb.
(c) Wedding dress.
(d) Priestess robes.

5. How did Astyanax's bravery affect Ulysses and the Greeks?
(a) They cried out of pity,
(b) They prayed to the gods for mercy.
(c) They mocked him.
(d) They saluted him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Tantalus serve as a meal to the gods?

2. What emotion is Thyestes mysteriously experiencing in the beginning of the last act of "Thyestes"?

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

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

5. In what state is Tantalus in the first act of "Thyestes"?

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