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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. "Trojan Women": When does the king say he will kill Helen?
(a) When they return to Greece.
(b) When they leave Troy.
(c) When they return to Rome.
(d) He will not kill her.

3. "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) Escape.
(b) Gain access to riches.
(c) Raise her status.
(d) See her father.

4. "The Bacchants": What is Tiresias's main characteristic?
(a) Deafness.
(b) Blindness.
(c) Baldness.
(d) Shortness.

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

6. "Electra": What does Orestes do as his mother comes to Electra's house?
(a) Leaves.
(b) Hides.
(c) Runs away.
(d) Stands next to Electra.

7. "Iphigenia at Aulis" begins with a speech that has been what?
(a) Misplaced.
(b) Never performed.
(c) Translated.
(d) Lost.

8. "The Bacchants": What do Tiresias and the king want to do at the bacchanal celebration?
(a) Watch.
(b) Talk.
(c) Dance.
(d) Drink.

9. "Iphigenia among Taurians": What does Iphigenia feel as she prepares to perform the sacrifice?
(a) No sadness.
(b) No loss.
(c) No pleasure.
(d) No pain.

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

11. "Electra": Aegisthus married Electra to the peasant so she cannot have what?
(a) His throne.
(b) Riches.
(c) A good life.
(d) Noble children.

12. "Electra": Where does Orestes plans to ambush the king?
(a) Outside the temple.
(b) Outside the city.
(c) Outside his palace.
(d) At the stables.

13. "The Bacchants": What is Pentheus's role?
(a) King of Thebes.
(b) King of Macedonia.
(c) King of Sparta.
(d) King of Declean.

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

15. "The Bacchants": Dionysus's father is Zeus. Whom is his mother?
(a) Sara.
(b) Semele.
(c) Saraiah.
(d) Salma.

Short Answer Questions

1. "The Bacchants": When Pentheus is told not to blaspheme the gods, what emotion does he feel?

2. "Trojan Women": Who joins Poseidon and says she has decided to attack the Greeks?

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

4. "The Bacchants": Who has not respected his Bacchic rites?

5. "Iphigenia at Aulis": Who spirited Iphigenia away from the sacrifice?

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