Thyestes; Phaedra; the Trojan Women; Oedipus with Octavia Test | Final Test - Easy

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Thyestes; Phaedra; the Trojan Women; Oedipus with Octavia Test | Final Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What actions did the old shepherd perform before the beginning of "Oedipus"?
(a) He killed Laius.
(b) He took Oedipus as a baby to the Corinthian messenger.
(c) He cursed Oedipus with the prophecy.
(d) He blessed Oedipus upon his birth.

2. What does Creon advise Oedipus to do after the former relays the message from the murdered king?
(a) Consult with Tiresias.
(b) Commit suicide.
(c) Renounce the throne.
(d) Pray to Zeus.

3. According to Talthybius, what did a prophet witness that suggests the sea mourns for Achilles?
(a) A tree fell in a storm.
(b) The earth split into two.
(c) An animal fell into the rocks.
(d) The sea has grown turbulent.

4. What news does the messenger give Oedipus in the fourth act?
(a) Tiresias is a fake.
(b) Creon has seized control of Corinth.
(c) Polybus has died.
(d) Zeus has ended the plague.

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

6. Where does Oedipus send Creon?
(a) Corinth.
(b) The Underworld.
(c) The Oracle at Delphi.
(d) Troy.

7. What message does the ghost of Jocasta's husband send?
(a) Polybus is his murderer.
(b) Oedipus is his murderer.
(c) Creon is his murderer.
(d) Tiresias is his murderer.

8. What does Oedipus reveal to Jocasta at the end of the play?
(a) He never loved her.
(b) He is cursed by the gods.
(c) He is her son.
(d) He is leaving Thebes.

9. About what does a Trojan elder instruct Andromache to lie?
(a) She will claim that she was not Hector's wife.
(b) She will claim Astyanax is hiding in the castle.
(c) She will claim that she is protected by Apollo.
(d) She will claim Astyanax was killed when Troy fell.

10. Why is Andromache jealous of Polyxena?
(a) Polyxena has accepted her fate.
(b) Polyxena will die on her native soil.
(c) Polyxena has been blessed by Zeus.
(d) Polyxena will be treated as a princess in her marriage.

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

12. Why does Helen claim she is in a worse position than the Trojan women?
(a) She will be forced back to Menelaus in chains.
(b) She is pregnant by Paris and Menelaus will doubtlessly kill the child.
(c) The Trojans and the Greeks both hate her.
(d) She is cursed by the gods.

13. For whom do Hecuba and the chorus lament, though they say nothing will ever adequately express their loss?
(a) Paris.
(b) Hector.
(c) Priam.
(d) Achilles.

14. What has happened to the Trojan widows after their army was defeated?
(a) The women escaped the city.
(b) The women took up arms to defend themselves.
(c) The women have all been claimed by the Greeks.
(d) The women have all been prepared for suicide.

15. How did Astyanax defy the Greeks at his death?
(a) He prayed to Zeus as he died.
(b) He jumped out of the tower before they could throw him out.
(c) He escaped from the Greeks and threw himself in the sea.
(d) He stabbed himself so that they cannot throw him from the tower.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oedipus wish upon the murderer of Jocasta's late husband?

2. What is Tiresias' occupation?

3. What does Agamemnon claim as being forbidden, due to shame and honor?

4. From where does the messenger in the fourth act come in "Oedipus"?

5. What is Talthybius' station among the Greeks?

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