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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Phoenician Women, pages 73-98.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who says to the dead Aegisthus that his marriage was godless and filled with evil?
(a) Orestes.
(b) The farmer.
(c) Electra.
(d) Clytemnestra.

2. Who becomes Clytemnestra's lover?
(a) Pentheus.
(b) Orestes.
(c) Aegisthus.
(d) Agamemnon.

3. What has Oedipus outwitted in The Phoenician Women?
(a) A dragon.
(b) The king.
(c) The Sphinx.
(d) The Dioscuri.

4. Who does the chorus sing about that would right the wrongs being slain in Electra?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Clytemnestra and Aegisthus.
(c) Antigone and Aegisthus.
(d) Electra and Orestes.

5. Who enters with Antigone in her first entrance in The Phoenician Women?
(a) Jocasta.
(b) The pedagogue.
(c) Polyneices.
(d) Teiresius.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Laius NOT to father a child?

2. How did Orestes attain the mark the servant speaks of?

3. Who kills Agamemnon?

4. What is Oedipus awarded for lifting the torment on Thebes?

5. What goddess will be celebrated in the beginning of Electra?

(see the answer key)

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