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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Why did Aegeus visit the oracle?
(a) To get advice about a potential war.
(b) To find out how his wife might have children.
(c) To decide what to name his first child.
(d) To learn how long he would live.
2. What does the chorus think about Medea's plan for her children?
(a) That she will not be able to carry it out in the moment.
(b) That it's the only thing she could do.
(c) That she has lost her mind and must be stopped.
(d) That it makes perfect sense given the circumstance.
3. After the deaths of Creon and the princess, what happens to Medea's plan for her children?
(a) It is stalled because Jason returns to stop her.
(b) It unravels because she is immediately captured by soldiers.
(c) She becomes even more resolved to carry it out.
(d) She decides Jason has suffered enough and will let her children live.
4. What justification does Medea give for being upset when her children return from seeing their father?
(a) She is grieving that she will soon leave them behind.
(b) She is so happy that she weeps.
(c) She misses having her whole family together.
(d) She can see their father in their faces.
5. What excuse does Medea give for her tears when she is looking at Jason with her children?
(a) That she remembers when Jason held her own hand so tenderly.
(b) That her children's love is so pure it makes her weep.
(c) That she is imagining them reaching out to heaven in the distant future.
(d) That she will miss having her family all together.
Short Answer Questions
1. Is Medea always firmly resolved that she should kill her children?
2. Why does Aegeus swear an oath to Medea?
3. What does Jason agree to ask Creon on Medea's behalf?
4. Who is Aegeus?
5. Whom else does Medea decide to kill after Aegeus leaves?
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