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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. "Trojan Women": Hecuba laments the death of whom?
(a) Her country.
(b) Her goddess.
(c) Her family.
(d) Her mother.

4. "Electra": Whom did Electra's mother help to kill?
(a) Her brother.
(b) Her cousin.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her uncle.

5. "Iphigenia at Aulis": If Agamemnon calls off the sacrifice, who will do it?
(a) Pylades.
(b) Achilles.
(c) Odysseus.
(d) Creon.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Which goddess does Iphigenia serve?

2. "The Bacchants": What do Tiresias and the king want to do at the bacchanal celebration?

3. "Iphigenia at Aulis": What are the Greek troops waiting for while sitting in port?

4. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Once they are on the ship, what does the sea do?

5. "Trojan Women": With which Greek man does Hecuba go?

Short Essay Questions

1. "Trojan Women": What does Hecuba tell Menelaus?

2. "Electra": What is the plan the tutor and Orestes make to kill Aegisthus?

3. "Electra": Why has Aegisthus married Electra to a peasant?

4. "The Bacchants": Why does Dionysus plot against the Thebans?

5. "The Bacchants": Why has Pentheus jailed several of the bacchants?

6. "Iphigenia at Aulis": Why does Achilles vow to defend Iphigenia?

7. "The Bacchants": What do Cadmus and Tiresias discuss on their way to the bacchanal celebration?

8. "Trojan Women": Why is Hecuba upset about Agamemnon taking Cassandra?

9. "Electra": What do Castor and Pollux tell Orestes and Electra?

10. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Why are Orestes and Pylades in Taurus?

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