Well Known Greek Plays

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1. Which one of these is not a Greek playwright? Aeschylus Sophocles Homer Euripides

2. Which of these plays was not written by Euripides? Hippolytus Oedipus the King Electra Medea

3. Which of these playwrights wrote comedies and not tragedies? Aristophanes Aeshchylus Euripides Sophocles

4. Which three plays make up the trilogy 'The Oresteia'? Oedipus the King, Hecabe, Electra Agamemnon, Electra, The Libation Bearers Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, Eumenides Agamemnon, Oedipus the King, Eumenides

5. Which young woman, in the play of the same name, was punished for burying her dead brother? Antigone Medea Ismene Phaedra

6. Who was both mother and wife to Oedipus? Jocasta Hecabe Euridice Phaedra

7. Which young man was doomed for scorning Aphrodite (goddess of love) by refusing to worship her, and remaining a virgin? Theseus Haemon Hippolytus Jason

8. Of which woman is it said that she 'manoeuvres like a man'? Phaedra Antigone Medea Clytemnestra

9. Who murders her own children to hurt her husband? Hecabe Medea Euridice Ismene

10. In Greek plays all the characters are played by men, but more plays were written with female choruses than male choruses. True or false? True False