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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Bacchae, pages 179-200.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Clytemnestra claim's she only avenged whose death?
(a) Her daughter's.
(b) Her mother's.
(c) Her husband's.
(d) Her son's.

2. Who is killed in sacrifice for the Trojan War?
(a) Iphegenia.
(b) Dioscuri.
(c) Hermia.
(d) Eteocles.

3. Who enters with Orestes in his first appearance in Electra?
(a) Aegisthus.
(b) Pylades.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Jocasta.

4. Who does Electra ask to hide the body of Aegisthus?
(a) The farmer.
(b) Orestes.
(c) Pylades.
(d) The chorus.

5. Who does Electra send her husband to go find when the strangers enter the cottage?
(a) Iphegenia.
(b) Aegisthus.
(c) Clytemnestra.
(d) Her father's servant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What natural disaster does Dionysus call forth in The Bacchae?

2. When Orestes returns in the end of Electra, what does he offer his sister to do with what she pleases?

3. Who does Electra explain to her guests the servant is?

4. Whose army is chased away at the end of the battle in The Phoenician Women?

5. In The Bacchae, the chorus sings that ______ men are punished by the gods.

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