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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Alcestis": What does Admetus's wife make him promise not to do after she dies?
(a) Hire a nanny.
(b) Remarry.
(c) Go mad.
(d) Leave the children.

2. "Alcestis": Pheres says that no man wishes to die. What does he suggest is better?
(a) For the slaves to die.
(b) For the childrento die.
(c) For the servants to die.
(d) For the wife to die.

3. "Trojan Women": What does Cassandra say her death is the working of?
(a) The gods.
(b) Social justice.
(c) Fate.
(d) Nature.

4. "Trojan Women": Before the Greeks take her to whom is Cassandra is a servant?
(a) The king.
(b) The queen.
(c) The fates.
(d) The gods.

5. "Andromache": Who is the son Peleus had with a goddess?
(a) Achilles.
(b) Heracles.
(c) Hercules.
(d) Odysseus.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Alcestis": Who agrees to die in place of Admetus?

2. "Electra": What does Orestes drop on the king's head when the king is looking at the entrails?

3. "Trojan Women": The goddess has decided to attack her former allies, the Greeks, because they have done violence to whom?

4. "Electra": Who tells Electra Aegisthus is successfully murdered?

5. "Hippolytus": What action does Phaedra believe is better than doing wrong?

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