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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Talthybius' station among the Greeks?
(a) Weaponsmith.
(b) Priest.
(c) Prophet.
(d) Herald.

2. Where does Andromache hide her son?
(a) Hector's tomb.
(b) The temple of Apollo.
(c) The caves by the edge of the city.
(d) The marketplace.

3. Who does Andromache blame for the fall of Troy?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Achilles.
(c) Paris.
(d) Helen.

4. What is the chorus in the fifth act of "Oedipus" questioning when they learn about their king's punishment?
(a) Humanity's tendencies to make mistakes.
(b) The self-fulfilling nature of prophecies.
(c) The justice of fate.
(d) The hatred Oedipus must feel for himself.

5. In the second act of "Oedipus," what knowledge does Creon relate that will end the plague?
(a) Laius' murder must be avenged.
(b) Oedipus must seek out a special herb.
(c) Jocasta must bear another child.
(d) Oedipus must make a human sacrifice to Hera.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does a Trojan elder instruct Andromache to lie?

2. What has happened to the Trojan widows after their army was defeated?

3. What does Oedipus believe about himself in the fifth act?

4. What is the only reason that Creon reveals the information he gained from Tiresias after summoning the ghost?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Oedipus become king of Thebes?

2. What does Pyrrhus demand for Achilles and why?

3. In the first act of "Troades," for whom does Hecuba lead the grief-stricken chorus and why?

4. Who is Hector and why is he important to the Trojans and Greeks?

5. What do the shepherd and the messenger reveal to Oedipus about his past?

6. Describe Hecuba's mocking of the Greeks throughout "Troades."

7. Why does Andromache hide her son from the Greeks?

8. Why is Creon sent to Delphi and what does he learn?

9. Why are the Greeks unable to leave Troy in the beginning of "Troades"?

10. Why does Oedipus refuse to commit suicide?

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