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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Iphigenia at Aulis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Andromache": Who is Hermione?
(a) Princess of Troy.
(b) Princess of Sparta.
(c) Princess of Athens.
(d) Princess of Delphi.

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

3. "Hippolytus": What does Hippolytus give to Artemis's statue?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Food.
(c) Garlands.
(d) Incense.

4. "The Bacchants": What does Pentheus say are dancing in the countryside?
(a) Strangers.
(b) Maenads.
(c) Egyptians.
(d) Syrians.

5. "Iphigenia at Aulis": Who stole Helen?
(a) Paris.
(b) Aulis.
(c) Calcas.
(d) Hector.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Alcestis": Where does Admetus rule?

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

3. "Electra": Where is Orestes going to be tried and acquitted?

4. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Iphigenia was intended to be a sacrifice but was spirited away to where?

5. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Where does Iphigenia think her brother is when she is going to release one of the men to take a message to him?

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