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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 - Electra.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 1, while Clytenmestra was speaking with Achilles, who came to the tents where she was staying with Iphigenia?
(a) 4 soldiers.
(b) 3 rough men in armor.
(c) 2 soldiers.
(d) 5 rough men in armor.

2. In Chapter 1, what would people be to the gods?
(a) Sound of wind in the trees.
(b) Sound of running water.
(c) Bees.
(d) Ants.

3. In Chapter 2, what work are Leander, Mithros, and Orestes offered in return for food and shelter from a man with goats?
(a) Dig ditches.
(b) Milk goats.
(c) Clean out barns.
(d) Sow a field.

4. Who was rumored to have killed Aegisthus' two half brothers and served them at a feast?
(a) Agamemnon's grandfather.
(b) Agamemnon's uncle.
(c) Clytemnestra's father-in-law.
(d) Clytemnestra's father.

5. In Chapter 1, who told Clytemnestra that Iphigenia is to be sacrificed?
(a) A cook.
(b) Achilles.
(c) A serving woman.
(d) Agamemnon.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, what swoops down on the boys as they walk to the old woman's house?

2. In Chapter 2, what does Orestes notice in the palace as he waits to welcome his father?

3. In Chapter 1, how long had Agamemnon been gone?

4. In Chapter 3, after Electra learns her mother murdered her father, why does Theodotus's son want to see her?

5. In Chapter 2, how many children do a man and a woman have when Orestes and the guards find them and take water?

(see the answer key)

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