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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Medea have to do in order to stay with Aegeus?
(a) Get Creon's permission.
(b) Make it to his kingdom on her own.
(c) Translate the prophecy from the oracle.
(d) Kill Jason and his new wife.

2. What does the poison do to the princess's body?
(a) Causes her flesh to fall off her bones.
(b) Nothing other than making her fall asleep.
(c) Makes her contort in pain.
(d) Causes boils to appear on her skin.

3. Who does Medea plan to take revenge against?
(a) Jason, his new wife, and Creon.
(b) Her children, Creon and Aegeus.
(c) The Nurse, Jason, and the chorus.
(d) Jason, the Nurse, and the Tutor.

4. Who tells Medea about Creon and his daughter?
(a) The Tutor.
(b) The Nurse.
(c) A messenger.
(d) Jason.

5. What bargain does Medea strike with Creon?
(a) That she doesn't have to leave for a year.
(b) That her children must leave but she can stay.
(c) That she can stay as a servant to Creon.
(d) That she can stay one more day.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the princess do after trying out her new gifts?

2. What wins the princess over to being willing to help Jason's children?

3. How does Medea think women generally feel?

4. Whom else does Medea decide to kill after Aegeus leaves?

5. What did Aegeus think of the oracle's reply to his question?

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