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WorksheetsEuripides' Medea
Total questions: 36
Worksheet time: 27mins
In what year was Medea first performed?
341 B.C.
431 B.C.
341 A.D.
431 A.D.
Where was it first performed? (Two correct answers)
Athens
Corinth
The Dionysia Festival
The Parthenon
Give the term that means "a society controlled by men" (11 letters).
(a)
The play is set in which Greek city-state?
Athens
Sparta
Corinth
Colchis
The definition of kleos is....
Glory
Repugnant
Gore
Glaring
The Greek word for "honour" is....
Kleos
Timê
Dolos
Metic
Kleos can mean.....
Reputation
Power
Excellence
Glory
Dolos means....
Trickery; deception
Manipulation
Pain
Money
Because Medea was a (a) (starts with 'm') she had no power, and was not recognized in society because she was not a citizen.
Before the play begins, Medea betrayed her _________ and murdered her ____________ to help Jason.
Father
Brother
Uncle
Grandfather
Because Medea loved Jason, she felt that he (a) her when he left her for Glauce.
Why did Medea murder her two sons?
She didn't love them anymore.
She didn't want to lose them to Jason.
She wanted to ruin Jason's life / get revenge on him by causing him pain.
She was sick of them not cleaning their rooms.
Which is an example of Jason trying to attain kleos?
Leaving Medea.
Marrying Glauce so he could become King of Corinth.
Accusing Medea of Glauce and Creon's murders.
How do you know Athens was a misogynistic society?
Women weren't allowed to leave the oikos (house).
Only men were allowed to be involved in politics.
Women were not allowed regular jobs, but had to make clothes for the family.
"There are two days when a woman is a pleasure: the day one marries her and the day one carries out her dead body."
The author of the play, who was allegedly divorced twice, lived a depressing life, wrote tragedies, and died alone torn apart by dogs (allegedly).
Pelias
Euripides
Sophocles
Aeschylus
Jason
The only character from the play who is also from Medea's home country, Colchis, and is loyal to her mistress.
Nurse
The Chorus
Aphrodite
Glauce
Hecate
The function of Greek Theatre where there were figures onstage just to comment on the action and tell the audience how to feel (and in Euripides' play they were actual characters who got involved)
Nurse
The Chorus
Aphrodite
Medea
Colchis
Which Greek philosopher discussed the idea that society could only functioning well if all people were treated with justice and respect?
Plato
Leonidas
Euripides
Marcus Aurelius
They are presented as naïve and oblivious to the intrigue that surrounds them. Medea uses them as pawns in the murder of Glauce and Creon, then kills them in the play's culminating horror. Their innocent deaths provide the greatest element of pathos (the tragic emotion of pity) in the play.
The Chorus
Jason and Medea's sons
The Nurse and the Tutor
The fire-breathing bulls
Who said something along the lines of:
"I mean it: men should really have some other method for getting children. The whole female race should not exist. It's nothing but a nuisance."
Aegeus
Medea
Creon
Jason
"Hapless woman, you have no father's house to which you might fly for shelter from the gales of misfortune and another woman, a princess, has charmed your husband away and stepped into your place"
"Because your love was scorned, you thought it right to murder?"
Who is needed to help the audience reflect on the things said and done?
The actors.
The Chorus.
The commentators.
Which is not a responsibility of the chorus:
Sets the overall mood of the play.
Determines the fate of the protagonist
Serves as a character, giving advice, expressing opinions, asking questions, etc.
Can establish the ethical or social framework of events.
A group of Corinthian women who are commentators and also become part of the action (e.g. when they talk to Medea in first scene). They sympathize with her until she plans to kill her kids.
The Messenger
The Chorus
Nurse
Glauce
What feelings does the protagonist, Medea, evoke?
pity and fear
fear and excitement
confidence and hope
pity and jealousy
Which of these are masculine qualities?
Aretê
Dolos
Timê
Kleos
TRUE or FALSE: Ancient Greek society thought that Jason had done the wrong thing by divorcing Medea.
True
False
In the Dyonisia Festival, this play was voted third place (last). Why?
People liked all the plays, but the other two happened to be better.
The themes in the play confronted issues in society that people did not want to acknowledge.
The way Euripides wrote the character Medea (emotional, manipulative, powerful, vengeful) went against everything society thought a woman should be so they hated it.
The votes were miscounted and the play should have won.
