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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Electra": Who is Orestes' father?
(a) Aeschilles.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Asthendion.
(d) Arestees.

2. "Ion": How is Creusa supposed to kill Xuthus and Ion?
(a) With an accident.
(b) With a horse.
(c) With a sword.
(d) With poison.

3. "Trojan Women": The goddess has decided to attack her former allies, the Greeks, because they have done violence to whom?
(a) Some of her servants.
(b) Some of her children.
(c) Her sisters.
(d) The women.

4. "Ion": At the beginning of the play, what action of Apollo's does Hermes describe?
(a) Playing the lyre.
(b) Birth.
(c) Waging war.
(d) Rape.

5. "Electra": What does the king want the entrails of the animal for?
(a) A sign he made a sacrifice.
(b) Decoration.
(c) Reading his fortune.
(d) Eating.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Ion": During what event must Xuthus have impregnated a local girl according to Ion and Xuthus?

2. "Alcestis": Pheres says that no man wishes to die. What does he suggest is better?

3. "Ion": What does Creusa put with the baby boy?

4. "Medea": What does Medea claim about women?

5. "Electra": The king has heard that Thessalians are master butchers of what?

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