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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Pyrrhus, who was most afraid of Achilles?
(a) Paris.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Priam.
(d) Hector.

2. Why does the nurse claim to be dressed in a particular manner in the third act of "Phaedra"?
(a) Phaedra wants to die.
(b) She has joined the temple of Apollo.
(c) She is going to be wed.
(d) She is joining the hunt.

3. What fate awaits the children of Thyestes?
(a) They will be buried alive.
(b) Their bodies will be boiled to pieces.
(c) They will be exiled.
(d) Their bodies will be fed to wild animals.

4. What does Phaedra's nurse lament in the beginning of the second act?
(a) Hippolytus' disdain of women.
(b) Phaedra's planned suicide.
(c) Phaedra's plan to seduce Hippolytus.
(d) Theseus' death.

5. Who kills Polyxena?
(a) Menelaus.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Pyrrhus.
(d) Ulysses.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Phaedra die?

2. Of what does Phaedra's nurse attempt to convince Hippolytus in the second act of "Phaedra"?

3. Upon what were Thyestes' sons sacrificed?

4. Where does Andromache hide her son?

5. At the start of "Phaedra," where is Theseus?

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