Phaedra Study Guide

1. Who is Hippolytus' biological mother?

• Cleopatra
• Antiope
• Medea
• the Nurse

2. Who is Hippolytus' stepmother?

• Cleopatra
• Phaedra
• Persephone
• Carla

3. At the beginning of the play Theseus is in

• Persia
• Sparta
• the Underworld
• Paradise

4. Hippolytus loves to

• make love to women
• hunt
• read and study in his library
• drink and make merry with his many friends in the city

5. Hippolytus invokes ______ to aid him at the beginning of the play.

• Apollo
• Neptune
• Diana
• Athena

6. Phaedra is the wife of

• Agamemnon
• Theseus
• Hercules
• Odysseus

7. Medea committed what heinous act?

• She killed her own children.
• She committed adultery.
• She raped her stepson.
• She murdered her parents and blamed it on her nurse.

8. Theseus is the son of

• Apollo
• Zeus
• Neptune
• Hippolytus

9. Hippolytus is killed by

• old age
• poison
• a thunderbolt
• his horses, who tear him apart in terror

10. Phaedra's mother was named

• Persephone
• Carla
• Pasiphae
• Penelope