View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On page 243, what would it take for the guards to be able to see or sense Clytemnestra?
(a) A gliding movement.
(b) The sound of her voice.
(c) The feeling of her passing.
(d) A sound or gesture.

2. In Chapter 4, who tells Orestes that his mother killed his father?
(a) Leander.
(b) Electra.
(c) Theodotus.
(d) Mitros.

3. In Chapter 4, who does Clytemnestra tell Orestes killed his father?
(a) Theodotus.
(b) Mitros.
(c) Cassandra.
(d) Agamemnon's men.

4. At the end of Chapter 6, why is Leander looking for Orestes?
(a) He wants to talk to Orestes.
(b) He wants to know about Clytemnestra.
(c) Ianthe is having the baby.
(d) Electra is sick.

5. In Chapter 4, what time of day does Clytemnestra want Orestes to leave and meet Dinos?
(a) Mid-day.
(b) Midnight.
(c) First light.
(d) Dawn.

6. How does Clytemnestra describe the place where she is in Chapter 5?
(a) Blankness, strangeness, and silence.
(b) Dark and dreary.
(c) Like being underwater.
(d) Shadowy and quiet.

7. What does a guard want to know at the end of Chapter 5 when he speaks to Clytemnestra?
(a) If she means to harm Orestes.
(b) Who she is.
(c) Why she has come.
(d) Where she is going.

8. In Chapter 5, what remnant persists of thought for Clytemnestra?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her mother.

9. In Chapter 5, what does Clytemnestra think might be the reason that she wanders in the spaces?
(a) Hate.
(b) Revenge.
(c) Anger.
(d) Love.

10. In Chapter 5, what replaces truth and knowledge?
(a) Being perplexed and bewildered.
(b) Being unmoored and lost.
(c) Being lost and scared.
(d) Being unstable and unanchored.

11. In Chapter 5, how does Clytemnestra think that she will fade?
(a) Over a long period of time.
(b) In a quick moment.
(c) Suddenly.
(d) Gradually.

12. What does Electra tell Orestes when he asks the size of their army in Chapter 6?
(a) They have no army.
(b) They have about 50 men.
(c) They have about 100 men.
(d) They have about 150 men.

13. In Chapter 4 when Leander and Orestes come across a fast-flowing stream, how far does Leander think they are from a village where his mother's family is from?
(a) A day.
(b) Half a day.
(c) 2 days.
(d) 3 days.

14. What does Clytemnestra say to Orestes in Chapter 6?
(a) "No one."
(b) "Where?".
(c) "Why?".
(d) "Where is everyone?".

15. In Chapter 5, what does Clytemnestra hope will happen before she fades?
(a) That she will have a time to settle in the world like when she was alive.
(b) That she will find her son.
(c) That she will find Electra.
(d) That she will find her husband and Iphigenia..

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5, before Clytemnestra begins to remember words, what is she left with?

2. In Chapter 4 after Leander and Orestes have been climbing, what do they find to eat?

3. In Chapter 6, what is decided to be done with the slaves Agamemnon captured so long ago?

4. In Chapter 4, when does Clytemnestra say that Orestes' room is best?

5. At the beginning of Chapter 6, where do Electra and Ianthe take up residence?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 508 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample