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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Play 2, Part 1 (p. 165-171).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the signal that the man on the roof sees mean?
(a) Agamemnon has died.
(b) Menelaus is coming home from the Trojan War.
(c) King Priam is invading.
(d) Agamemnon is coming home from the Trojan War.

2. What does Clytemnestra wish for herself and her country at the end of the Agamemnon?
(a) She wishes to have another child to take over for her.
(b) She wishes to retire as queen.
(c) She wishes to live peacefully.
(d) She wishes to conquer the next city.

3. What is the herald's opinion on Troy and Paris?
(a) The city should have turned Paris over to the Greeks.
(b) It is a tragedy.
(c) They got what they deserved.
(d) Paris should have surrendered and the city left untouched.

4. What message does Clytemnestra send to Agamemnon through the herald?
(a) She does not wish to see him.
(b) She is pregnant with his child.
(c) She wants to take him to Apollo's temple for blessings.
(d) She has been loyal and faithful.

5. According to the herald and the chorus, what has happened to Agamemnon's brother?
(a) He was killed in battle.
(b) His ship is lost after a storm.
(c) His men mutinied against him on the return home.
(d) He has returns home safely.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Orestes pray for at the beginning of "The Libation Bearers"?

2. Whom does Agamemnon tell Clytemnestra to greet and treat well?

3. What is concerning the chorus at the end of Play 1, Part 1?

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

5. What gift did Apollo give Cassandra before the events of The Oresteia?

(see the answer key)

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