Episode Four - The Women of Troy

Why did Neoptolemus have to depart Troy so quickly?

• his mother was dying of a dreadful contagion

• his grandfather was overthrown and had to escape the country

• his wife was not far away from giving birth

• his father was desperate to see him

What sight "brought tears to [Talthybius'] eyes"?

• the unusually bright sunset

• the ships all (but one) sailing off without him

• the grief-stricken outbursts of Andromache

• Hecuba bent over the body of Astyanax

What did Andromache beg of Neoptolemus?

• to be left to die in Troy

• to be fed to the sharks at sea

• to have Astyanax be buried by Hecuba

• to take Hector's shield with her to preserve his memory

Who washed and wiped the body of Astyanax?

• Talthybius

• Hecuba

• Cassandra

• Andromache

Who says, "Were you so frightened of a child/ You had to invent this unheard of ...............?" and finish the quote.

• Andromache / terror

• Hecuba / degradation

• Hecuba / savagery

• Chorus / witchery

Finish Hecuba's accusation: "Unreasoning terror in ................ men!"

• ridiculous

• radical

• rational

• reasonable

What does Hecuba recall Astyanax telling her?

• that he loved to watch the sea

• that he would one day be a warrior like his father

• that he would one day save the city from being sacked

• that he would cut off his biggest curl when she was dead

Hecuba uses a metaphor of a "madman dancing, leaping one way then the next" to represent what?

• the force that governs their lives

• Neoptolemus' taking of Andromache

• Cassandra's thoughts

• Odysseus' actions

According to Hecuba, whom do all the gods hate?

• all Greeks for their cowardice

• Helen

• the Trojan children

• Astyanax

According to the Chorus, who was born to be King?

• Paris

• Hector

• Astyanax

• Talthybius