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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Iphigenia Among Taurians.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Electra": How is Electra going to lure her mother out to her house?
(a) Claiming to have information.
(b) Claiming to be ill.
(c) Claiming to have a present.
(d) Claiming to have a baby.

2. "Ion": Where at the temple does Hermes place the baby?
(a) At the steps.
(b) At the statue.
(c) At the table.
(d) At the altar.

3. "Alcestis": What state is Heracles in when he claims he will meet death and wrestle for the life of Alcestis?
(a) Drunk.
(b) Happy.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Grief-stricken.

4. "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.

5. "Alcestis": Who agrees to die in place of Admetus?
(a) His mother.
(b) His sister.
(c) His niece.
(d) His wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Trojan Women": How do the Greeks kill Andromache's son?

2. Whom is Death arguing with at the beginning of the play "Alcestis"?

3. "Andromache": Who sends a messenger to warn Neoptolemos?

4. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Who tells Iphigenia that there are two strangers in their land?

5. "Ion": What does Creusa put her baby boy in?

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