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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Electra, pages 23-42.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Electra explain to her guests the servant is?
(a) The one who killed Agamemnon.
(b) The one who killed Pylades.
(c) The one who saved Orestes.
(d) The one who works for Clytemnestra.

2. Who is Agamemnon's son?
(a) Oedipus.
(b) Orestes.
(c) Pylades.
(d) Dioscuri.

3. Where does Agamemnon go to fight?
(a) Argos.
(b) Olympus.
(c) Troy.
(d) Thebes.

4. Who kills Agamemnon?
(a) Antigone.
(b) Iphegenia.
(c) Clytemnestra and Aegisthus.
(d) Orestes and Electra.

5. Who is Clytemnestra's daughter?
(a) Antigone.
(b) Pylades.
(c) Electra.
(d) Dioscuri.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city-state does Clytemnestra rule?

2. What does Orestes ask the old servant once he is discovered?

3. What does the chorus inform Electra of in the beginning of Electra?

4. Who married Electra to her current husband?

5. Who becomes Clytemnestra's lover?

(see the answer key)

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