Medea Test

Question 1

Impunity

Answer 1

Exemption from punishment

Question 2

Embroidered

Answer 2

Decorated needlework

Question 3

Fidelity

Answer 3

Loyalty, faithfulness

Question 4

Invidious

Answer 4

Calculated to create offense

Question 5

Recrimination

Answer 5

Returning one accusation with another

Question 6

Intractable

Answer 6

Not easily controlled

Question 7

Consign

Answer 7

To transfer to another’s custody

Question 8

Expiate

Answer 8

To atone for

Question 9

Practitioners

Answer 9

Satisfaction for wrong or injury

Question 10

Supercilious

Answer 10

Haughtily, disdainful

Question 11

Scurrilous

Answer 11

Grossly offensive

Question 12

Redress

Answer 12

Shameless boldness

Question 13

Who is Creon?

Answer 13

Creon is the father of Glauce and king of Corinth.

Question 14

Creon’s relationship with Medea?

Answer 14

Creon felt threatened with Medea within the city walls because her husband was marrying his daughter.

Question 15

What is Creon’s part in the play?

Answer 15

Creon orders Medea out of the city.

Question 16

What punishment does Creon have prepared for Medea?

Answer 16

Creon banishes her and her soms

Question 17

Who is Medea willing to kill her sons?

Answer 17

Because she is consumed with hatred for her husband that she has to get revenge on him from every direction

Question 18

What does Medea respond to Jason?

Answer 18

Medea tells him that she saved his life and gave everything up for him.

Question 19

Who is Helios? And his relationship with Medea?

Answer 19

Helios is the sun god. Helios is Medea’s grandfather.

Question 20

Who is Hecate?

Answer 20

Goddess of magic and witchcraft.