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Medea Jeopardy

Medea Jeopardy. 100. 100. 100. 100. 100. 200. 200. 200. 200. 200. 300. 300. 300. 300. 300. 400. 400. 400. 400. 400. 500. 500. 500. 500. 500. Characters 100. Who is the first character to appear on stage?. The Nurse. Jeopardy. Characters 200.

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Medea Jeopardy

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  1. Medea Jeopardy 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500

  2. Characters 100 Who is the first character to appear on stage? The Nurse Jeopardy

  3. Characters 200 Who does Medea help kill for Jason to receive the Golden Fleece? Pelias the King Jeopardy

  4. Characters300 After the first conversation with the chorus, Medea is powerless, because she's foreign, she's got no family, and - above all- Because she’s a woman. She appeals to the other women not to give her away, if she finds a way to get revenge on Jason. Who arrives to throw her out? • Jason? • Creon? • Aegeus? Creon Jeopardy

  5. Characters 400 Jason tells Medea it's her own fault for abusing her hosts - but offers financial support. Medea calls him a filthy coward, and lists the risks she took to help him get where he is. She later says instead of bear children, she would rather… Stand on the front lines of battle Jeopardy

  6. Characters500 What is the name of Creon’s Daughter and Jason’s second wife? Glauce Jeopardy

  7. Setting100 What word(s) does Jason consistently use to describe Medea’s homeland? Barbaric or Savage Jeopardy

  8. Location200 Where does the action of the Play take place? Corinth Jeopardy

  9. Setting300 Medea left Colchis for Corinth, and she is told she will end up… On the Streets Jeopardy

  10. Setting 400 Why does Jason say he married Glauce, the king's daughter? • He fell in love • He wanted more sons • He wanted power • He no longer found Medea attractive He wanted power Jeopardy

  11. Setting500 Where is King Aegeus from? What does he promise Medea? Athens, Amnesty (safety) Jeopardy

  12. The gods & Persuasion 100 Which god is the Lord of gods and punishes oath breakers? Zeus Jeopardy

  13. The Gods & Persuasion 200 Despite her bad experience with the oath Jason swore - and broke - Medea insists that Aegeus swear an oath to keep her safe in Athens, and protect her from her enemies in Corinth and Iolcos. Who does she make him swear by? Apollo Jeopardy

  14. The Gods & Persuasion300 Jason returns. Medea plays the submissive wife quite blatantly. For the third time in the play, she kneels to a man in order to get what she wants. What does she convince him to do? Forgiver her and accept gifts Jeopardy

  15. The Gods and persuasion400 Rides off in a chariot with this interesting animal pulling Medea A dragon Jeopardy

  16. The gods and Persuasion 500 What god takes Medea and her children’s bodies away? Apollo Jeopardy

  17. Literary Analysis100 What literary device is used in the following quote by the chorus? What do they mean by this statement? “Obed of pain, How much evil you have brought to mankind.” Metaphor Jeopardy

  18. Literary Analysis200 I have to say I credit Aphrodite…Indeed it would be indelicate and ungrateful to list many ways in which Desire [Aphrodite] Drove you, helpless on to save my life… On the other hand, you got more than you gave. The first thing is, you live in Greece, instead of somewhere barbarous…then all the Greeks have heard of you, the wise one… Behind me, what better treasure-trove could I have found than marriage with the daughter of a king—I, an exile… I acted solely to ensure that we live well and never go without, because I know people will shun a man who’s lost his wealth. What are some stereotypical male traits that Jason expresses in the following lines? Jeopardy

  19. In what ways does Medea portray the feminine gender role when speaking with Creon? What way does she defy traditional gender roles when he leaves? Literary analysis300 Jeopardy

  20. Explain how 2 themes apply to the quote. (1 min) Literary analysis400 I would reply to your words at length, 1610if father Zeus did not already knowwhat I did for you and what you did to me.You weren't going to shame my marriage bedand have a pleasant life ridiculing me.Nor was that royal bride or Creon,who gave her to you, going to banish me,throw me from here with impunity.So if you want, call me a lionessor Scylla, who lives on Tuscan shores.For I've made contact with your heart at last Revenger, Power, Greed Jeopardy

  21. Go in—all will be well—boys, go in. Keep them as isolated as you can. Don’t let them near their mother; she’s distraught. Already, I’ve seen her eyeing them, like a beast about to charge… Clearly now the storm is rising, the cloud of pain will soon burst into greater fury. What will her proud untamable spirit do under the bite of suffering? Literary Terms500 Find 2 literary devices and explain how whether Medea here seems to follow a more masculine or feminine gender role during this scene. Jeopardy

  22. Misc.100 The boys come back from their run with the old tutor: what gossip has he heard? Creon is planning to ban Medea. Jeopardy

  23. Misc.200 How does Glauce die? Fire and poison Jeopardy

  24. MISC300 Medea ignore's Jason's outbursts - she knows she's got through to him at last. Zeus knows how she helped Jason, and how he repaid her. She refuses to give him her sons' bodies - she will bury them herself in the Temple of Hera. What does she say will become of Jason? He will die old and alone, without fame, stripped of honor. Jeopardy

  25. Cause/Effect400 Medea falls in love with Jason because of: Cupid’s arrow Jeopardy

  26. Misc.500 Name 2 events the Nurse speaks of in the prologue from Jason and the Argonauts. I wish the Argo had never spread its wings And flown to Colchis through the Clashing Rocks. I wish the pine tree on the slopes of Pelion Had not been felled; not split to feathery oars To fledge the arms of the Argonauts. Oh why Did Pelias send them for the Golden Fleece? If they had never come, my mistress Medea Would not have sailed back to Iolcos with them, Dazed with passion for their leader, Jason. Then she would not have made King Pelias’ daughters Kill their own father. And she’d not have come to settle here in Corinth, but she has. Jeopardy

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