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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Phoenician Women, pages 114-140.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who has Agamemnon brought back as a concubine from the war?
(a) Clytemnestra.
(b) Iphegenia.
(c) Cassandra.
(d) Antigone.
2. What does Electra chide her husband for after the messenger has appeared?
(a) Not feeding her.
(b) Abusing her.
(c) Raping her.
(d) Mistrusting her.
3. Eteocles tells Creon that Polyneices will do what?
(a) Give up.
(b) Take the crown.
(c) Wage war.
(d) Return in a month.
4. When Orestes returns in the end of Electra, what does he offer his sister to do with what she pleases?
(a) The knife he used.
(b) Clytemnestra's corpse.
(c) Pylades' corpse.
(d) Aegisthus' corpse.
5. Who is killed by stones dropped from the wall in the battle in The Phoenician Women?
(a) Antigone.
(b) Parthenopaeus.
(c) Eteocles.
(d) Cartemus.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who takes the first year of rule over Thebes, but will not give up the throne when it comes time for his brother to take over?
2. Who does Electra tell her husband the messengers are from?
3. Clytemnestra claim's she only avenged whose death?
4. Who does Electra explain to her guests the servant is?
5. Who was Clytemnestra's first husband?
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