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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. "Iphigenia at Aulis": What is the name of Agamemnon's wife?
(a) Carmina.
(b) Chamomilia.
(c) Clytemnestra.
(d) Cassandra.

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

3. "Trojan Women": What is Poseidon the god of?
(a) The moon.
(b) The sun.
(c) The air.
(d) The sea.

4. "Trojan Women": Who joins Poseidon and says she has decided to attack the Greeks?
(a) Artemis.
(b) Aphrodite.
(c) Persephone.
(d) Athena.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Whom did Apollo want to stop when he told Orestes and Pylades to take the item from the temple?

2. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Of what crime does Iphigenia plan to claim the two men are guilty making them unclean?

3. "Iphigenia at Aulis": What lie does Agamemnon tell in order to get Iphigenia to come to be sacrificed?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. "The Bacchants": What does Agave do after killing Pentheus?

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

3. "The Bacchants": What does the stranger convince Pentheus to do after he hears the tale from the herdsman?

4. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Who is Iphigenia?

5. "Electra": Why does the king ask Orestes to kill the bull?

6. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Why does Iphigenia think human sacrifice is practiced in Taurus?

7. "Iphigenia at Aulis": What happens when Iphigenia is sacrificed?

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

9. "Iphigenia among Taurians": How does Iphigenia get the idol to the ship?

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

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