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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. From where did Oedipus come?
(a) Troy.
(b) Corinth.
(c) Rome.
(d) Thebes.

4. Why is Oedipus fearful of returning to his homeland?
(a) He does not want to be a king.
(b) He does not wish to leave his wife.
(c) He does not want to abandon Thebes.
(d) He is still afraid of the prophecy.

5. Who was murdered before the beginning of "Oedipus"?
(a) King Priam.
(b) King Agamemnon.
(c) King Laius.
(d) King Polybus.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Hector warn Andromache in a dream?

2. What does Oedipus believe about himself in the fifth act?

3. For whom do Hecuba and the chorus lament, though they say nothing will ever adequately express their loss?

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

5. What does Agamemnon claim about Achilles' behavior during battle?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Andromache hide her son from the Greeks?

2. How and why does Jocasta commit suicide?

3. Describe Polyxena's fate.

4. How did Oedipus become king of Thebes?

5. Why do the Greeks cry when they take Astyanax?

6. Why does Tiresias summon Laius' ghost?

7. What does Pyrrhus demand for Achilles and why?

8. Describe Hecuba's mocking of the Greeks throughout "Troades."

9. Why are the Greeks unable to leave Troy in the beginning of "Troades"?

10. Why does Oedipus refuse to commit suicide?

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