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

2. What kind of blade does Orestes use to skin the animal with Aegisthus?
(a) Trojan.
(b) Artemen.
(c) Curmean.
(d) Dorian.

3. Orestes tells Electra that he's having second thoughts about killing whom?
(a) Clytemnestra.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Aegisthus.
(d) Iphegenia.

4. Whose marriage in Electra has NOT been consummated?
(a) Orestes'.
(b) Antigone's.
(c) Clytemnestra's.
(d) Electra's.

5. The old servant tells Orestes he must kill Aegisthus, but not where?
(a) By the river.
(b) In the country.
(c) On a grave.
(d) Within the city.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Clytemnestra's first husband?

2. In The Phoenician Women, who has been living in Argos and marries a woman there?

3. Who says to the dead Aegisthus that his marriage was godless and filled with evil?

4. Who is Electra married to?

5. Who does Electra send her husband to go find when the strangers enter the cottage?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who tells Electra of the upcoming feast? Why does she refuse to go?

2. What is the irony of Electra's stance on woman's subservience?

3. What does Orestes comment on about riches regarding the farmer? What prompts this?

4. What of Electra's demeanor in Part Three builds the tension of the play? What does she feel when she hears word from the messenger?

5. Why do the brothers in The Phoenician Women fight against fate?

6. How is Antigone's entrance in The Phoenician Women used as an aid to the audience?

7. The end of the Electra reveals the author's (and likely the society's) point of view. What is it?

8. What led to Oedipus' downfall?

9. Describe the dramatic irony in the messenger's speech to Electra in Part Three of the play.

10. Who recognizes Orestes?

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