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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two characters are getting divorced?
(a) Medea and Creon.
(b) Jason and Medea.
(c) Aegeus and Medea.
(d) Jason and Hecate.

2. What does Medea say about the value of being clever?
(a) That it is the most important skill to get by in life and survive in a strange land.
(b) That it is on par with being moral, and only matters in the eye of the beholder.
(c) That it is something women learn from birth in order to survive the men they meet.
(d) That it hasn't helped her very much, earning her enemies rather than friends.

3. What word best describes Medea's emotional reaction to Creon?
(a) Apathy.
(b) Contempt.
(c) Anger.
(d) Glee.

4. What reaction does the Nurse have to Medea's pain?
(a) She thinks Medea is too emotional.
(b) She pities Medea.
(c) She sympathizes but wants Medea to stop crying.
(d) She tells Medea it's her own fault.

5. Why is Medea being banished?
(a) Creon doesn't like her because she's a foreigner.
(b) Creon is afraid of her and what she'll do.
(c) Jason's new wife doesn't like having her around.
(d) She has had an affair and that is the punishment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the chorus tell Medea about men?

2. What goddess does Medea invoke as she plans her revenge?

3. Who explains why Medea is crying to the chorus?

4. What characters interrupt the Nurse's monologue?

5. How does Medea think women generally feel?

(see the answer key)

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