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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Thyestes doing at the end of the fourth act?
(a) Eating the feast from his brother.
(b) Receiving counsel from the ghost of his father.
(c) Praying to Zeus.
(d) Preparing to kill his brother.

2. Whom does Hecuba predict will not find peace for a long time?
(a) Menelaus.
(b) Ulysses.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Pyrrhus.

3. Who is the father of Tantulus?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Hades.
(c) Pan.
(d) Poseidon.

4. According to Calchas, why must Polyxena and Astyanax die?
(a) They pose too much of a threat to the Greeks.
(b) They have the plague.
(c) Apollo demands that they die or he will kill the Greeks.
(d) Their deaths will ensure a safe voyage home for the Greeks.

5. Why is Pyrrhus angry at Agamemnon?
(a) Agamemnon refuses to accept responsibility for Achilles' death.
(b) Agamemnon refuses to acknowledge Pyrrhus as a warrior.
(c) Agamemnon refuses to take the Trojan women captive.
(d) Agamemnon has not sacrificed a maiden in honor Achilles.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What must Atreus convince Thyestes to accept in the third act of "Thyestes"?

3. In the first act of "Thyestes," why does Tantalus initially refuse to unleash chaos?

4. What does the chorus sing about at the end of the first act of "Phaedra"?

5. Which character in "Thyestes" is decapitated?

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