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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Play 1, Part 5 (p.150-159).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What interrupts the chorus's meditations on life at the end of the fourth part of "The Agamemnon"?
(a) Clytemnestra is laughing.
(b) Agamemnon is screaming.
(c) Orestes returns to the city.
(d) Cassandra is screaming.

2. What is concerning the chorus at the end of Play 1, Part 1?
(a) They do not know if Agamemnon knows that his wife has not been faithful.
(b) They do not know if Agamemnon's return is as joyful as they believed.
(c) They do not know if there is a Trojan assassin waiting for them.
(d) They do not know if Troy has truly fallen.

3. According to Agamemnon, what kept him strong during the war?
(a) Cassandra.
(b) His thoughts of his children.
(c) His thoughts of his home.
(d) His thoughts of his wife.

4. According to Clytemnestra, where are the signals that the man on the roof was watching for?
(a) In trees.
(b) On ships strewn throughout the oceans.
(c) In caves.
(d) On top of mountains.

5. What does Clytemnestra claim about her life since Agamemnon left for war?
(a) She claims to have been lonely without him.
(b) She says that she remarried in his absence.
(c) She claims that her life improved after he left.
(d) She claims to have been fine without him.

Short Answer Questions

1. To Aegisthus's consternation, of what does the chorus remind him?

2. What does Agamemnon think about this particular welcome home?

3. What, according to the herald, is worth the suffering of the soldiers?

4. How does Agamemnon make his entrance?

5. What goddess demanded Iphigenia in sacrifice?

(see the answer key)

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