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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. "Trojan Women": Hecuba laments the death of whom?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her country.
(c) Her goddess.
(d) Her family.
2. "Trojan Women": The play begins after the fall of what city?
(a) Athens.
(b) Troy.
(c) Sparta.
(d) Corinth.
3. "Trojan Women": The Greeks have assembled the Trojan women who were spared death to become what?
(a) Wives.
(b) Slaves and concubines.
(c) Stable hands.
(d) Nurses and nannies.
4. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Whom did Iphigenia's father tell her she was going to marry?
(a) Pylades.
(b) Odysseus.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Ajax.
5. "Electra":, Why has Electra's husband not slept with her?
(a) Out of decency and fear of the Fates.
(b) Out of decency and fear of Electra's brother.
(c) Out of decency and fear of the gods.
(d) Out of decency and fear of the king.
Short Answer Questions
1. "The Bacchants": What tells the women to burn down the house of Pentheus?
2. "Iphigenia at Aulis": Who does Agamemnon claim will rise up against him if he does not sacrifice Iphigenia?
3. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Who tells Iphigenia that there are two strangers in their land?
4. "Trojan Women": Who joins Poseidon and says she has decided to attack the Greeks?
5. "The Bacchants": What does Pentheus say are dancing in the countryside?
Short Essay Questions
1. "Trojan Women": Why has Athena decided to attack her former allies?
2. "Iphigenia at Aulis": Why does Agamemnon try to tell his daughter not to come to the camp?
3. "Electra": When Electra meets her brother and thinks he is a messenger, what does she tell him?
4. "Iphigenia among Taurians": How does Iphigenia get the idol to the ship?
5. "The Bacchants": What does Agave do after killing Pentheus?
6. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Who is Iphigenia?
7. "The Bacchants": Why has Pentheus jailed several of the bacchants?
8. "Iphigenia at Aulis": What prophecy has Calchas made?
9. "The Bacchants": After the stranger escapes from jail, what tale does the herdsman tell Pentheus?
10. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Why do the men capture Pylades and Orestes?
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