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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Octavia.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does Thyestes feel about his impending meeting with his brother?
(a) Joyful.
(b) Neutral.
(c) Annoyed.
(d) Fearful.
2. How does Hippolytus feel when he learns that Phaedra desires him?
(a) Aroused.
(b) Humiliated.
(c) Repulsed.
(d) Elated.
3. What is Atreus angry about being unable to avenge?
(a) His son's death.
(b) The pestilence deaths of his subjects.
(c) His father's death.
(d) His brother's insults.
4. Who kills Polyxena?
(a) Pyrrhus.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Ulysses.
(d) Menelaus.
5. About what does a Trojan elder instruct Andromache to lie?
(a) She will claim Astyanax was killed when Troy fell.
(b) She will claim that she is protected by Apollo.
(c) She will claim Astyanax is hiding in the castle.
(d) She will claim that she was not Hector's wife.
Short Answer Questions
1. At the end of "Thyestes," what does the titular character entrust to the gods?
2. What does Phaedra finally admit to Theseus at the end of the play?
3. In what sort of garb is Phaedra's nurse dressed in the third act?
4. According to Calchas, why must Polyxena and Astyanax die?
5. Where does Oedipus send Creon?
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