Well Known Greek Plays

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

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

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

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

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? Euridice Jocasta Hecabe Phaedra

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

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 Ismene Euridice Medea

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