In “Titus Andronicus,” only one of Titus’s sons survives to the end of the play: Lucius. He is Titus’s eldest living son and ultimately leads the resistance against Rome’s corrupt leadership.
Titus begins the play with four surviving sons—Lucius, Quintus, Martius, and Mutius—after losing 21 sons in the Gothic wars. Mutius is killed by Titus himself when he tries to prevent Lavinia’s forced marriage to Saturninus. Aaron then engineers the deaths of Quintus and Martius by framing them for Bassianus’s murder.
Lucius is banished after defending his family, but he later returns with an army of Goths. After Titus, Lavinia, Tamora, and Saturninus all die, Lucius kills Saturninus and is chosen to rule Rome. The wording can cause confusion because four sons survive the war and are alive at the opening; the quiz asks who remains alive at the play’s conclusion.