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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what purpose does Tiresias wish to take a particular action after he is unable to clarify the Oracle's message?
(a) The Oracle can explain herself to him.
(b) Zeus will listen to and answer his prayers.
(c) Tiresias' willing sacrifice will end the plague.
(d) The ghost can reveal his murderer.

2. On what does Octavia blame her misfortunes?
(a) Her mother's second marriage.
(b) Her own mistakes.
(c) Her brother's curse.
(d) Her father's impiety.

3. Because of the plague, what does Oedipus consider doing because he is unable to stop it in the first act of the play?
(a) Sacrifice himself to Zeus.
(b) Raise the ghost of the murdered king.
(c) Leave Thebes.
(d) Abdicate the throne.

4. Why was Hippolytus trapped upon his horse before his death?
(a) He could not dismount.
(b) He fell and became tangled in the reins.
(c) His saddle was sabotaged.
(d) His sword became ensnared with the horse's mane.

5. What does Oedipus believe about himself in the fifth act?
(a) He is fit to neither live or die.
(b) He deserves to live among the animals.
(c) He is not even human anymore.
(d) The gods must hate him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Theseus' first wife?

2. Whose heads does Nero order to be brought to him in the second act of "Octavia"?

3. In "Octavia," whom does Nero blame for the wedding day rebellion?

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

5. In the first act of "Thyestes," what do the Fury claim to have planned for the wrongdoers?

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