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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. How does Jocasta kill herself?
(a) She throws herself out of a tower.
(b) Oedipus' sword.
(c) Fire.
(d) She hangs herself.

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

3. What happened when Polyxena was sacrificed in honor of Achilles?
(a) The tomb soaked up her blood.
(b) The gods cried out that she would be avenged.
(c) The land went silent.
(d) Her body was taken away by Apollo.

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

5. What is significant about Hecuba's exit at the end of the play?
(a) It infers that she is going to murder Ulysses.
(b) It infers that the gods have taken her away with them.
(c) It infers that she has committed suicide.
(d) It infers that she will be staying in Troy.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where did Oedipus come?

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

3. According to the ghost, what will end the plague?

4. For what does Hecuba pray?

5. Why does the messenger in the fourth act urge Oedipus to leave the city?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ulysses trick Andromache at Hector's tomb and why?

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

3. What does Oedipus reveal about his journey to Thebes in the fourth act?

4. Why does Oedipus refuse to commit suicide?

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

6. Why is Oedipus summoned back to Corinth and why is he reluctant to go?

7. Why did Oedipus leave Corinth?

8. Why does Tiresias summon Laius' ghost?

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

10. For what reasons do the Greeks want to sacrifice Astyanax?

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