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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "The Bacchants": Under whose rule did the people not respected the Bacchic rites?
(a) Clevus.
(b) Cadmus.
(c) Creon.
(d) Carterus.

2. "Electra": Who tells Electra Aegisthus is successfully murdered?
(a) A servant.
(b) A guard.
(c) Her husband.
(d) A messenger.

3. "Trojan Women": To whom is Helen married?
(a) Jason.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Menelaus.

4. "Trojan Women": The Greeks have assembled the Trojan women who were spared death to become what?
(a) Stable hands.
(b) Wives.
(c) Nurses and nannies.
(d) Slaves and concubines.

5. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Who tells Iphigenia that there are two strangers in their land?
(a) Locals.
(b) Herdsmen.
(c) Priests.
(d) Merchants.

6. "The Bacchants": What is Tiresias's job?
(a) Priest.
(b) Academic.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Prophet.

7. "Trojan Women": How do the Greeks kill Andromache's son?
(a) Behead him.
(b) Run him over with horses.
(c) Stone him.
(d) Throw him from the battlements.

8. "Iphigenia among Taurians": When Iphigenia realizes that one of the captured men is her brother, she devises a plan while helping them fulfill Apollo's orders. What will this plan help her do?
(a) Raise her status.
(b) Escape.
(c) See her father.
(d) Gain access to riches.

9. "Iphigenia at Aulis": When the priest was about to slit Iphigenia's throat, what appeared in her place?
(a) A sheep.
(b) A cow.
(c) A fawn.
(d) A goat.

10. "Electra": Electra begins with the speech of a peasant from where?
(a) Mycenae.
(b) Helios.
(c) Damascus.
(d) Tarturus.

11. "Iphigenia at Aulis": How does Iphigenia go to the altar?
(a) Unhappily.
(b) Carried.
(c) Willingly.
(d) Bound.

12. "Iphigenia at Aulis": Who spirited Iphigenia away from the sacrifice?
(a) Hera.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Artemis.
(d) Poseidon.

13. "Iphigenia at Aulis": The prophet has said that the lack of wind is the work of what goddess?
(a) Persephone.
(b) Demeter.
(c) Hera.
(d) Artemis.

14. "Trojan Women": What does Hecuba bury with her grandson?
(a) Hector's helmet.
(b) Hector's armor.
(c) Hector's shield.
(d) Hector's sword.

15. "Electra": Who did Orestes and Pylades claim to be when the met the king?
(a) Hunters.
(b) Merchants.
(c) Travelers.
(d) Priests.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. "Electra": Who tells Orestes and Electra what the future has in store for them?

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

4. "The Bacchants": How does Pentheus disguise himself to go view the rites on the hill?

5. "Trojan Women": Before the Greeks take her to whom is Cassandra is a servant?

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