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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. "Trojan Women": What is Poseidon the god of?
(a) The sea.
(b) The air.
(c) The moon.
(d) The sun.
2. "Electra": Whom did Electra's mother help to kill?
(a) Her cousin.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her uncle.
3. "Electra": Orestes asks the Electra's peasant husband to go find someone he remembers. Who is the man?
(a) His old retainer.
(b) His old bodyguard.
(c) His old manservant.
(d) His old tutor.
4. "Electra":, Why has Electra's husband not slept with her?
(a) Out of decency and fear of the king.
(b) Out of decency and fear of the Fates.
(c) Out of decency and fear of Electra's brother.
(d) Out of decency and fear of the gods.
5. "Iphigenia at Aulis": What is the name of Agamemnon's wife?
(a) Carmina.
(b) Chamomilia.
(c) Clytemnestra.
(d) Cassandra.
Short Answer Questions
1. "The Bacchants": What tells the women to burn down the house of Pentheus?
2. "Electra": What does the king want the entrails of the animal for?
3. "Iphigenia among Taurians": What does Iphigenia feel as she prepares to perform the sacrifice?
4. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Whom did Iphigenia's father tell her she was going to marry?
5. "Iphigenia at Aulis": Whom does Agamemnon need to sacrifice?
Short Essay Questions
1. "Electra": Why has the peasant not slept with Electra?
2. "Trojan Women": What does Hecuba tell Menelaus?
3. "Iphigenia among Taurians": What dream does Iphigenia have at the beginning of the play?
4. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Who is Iphigenia?
5. "Electra": Why has Aegisthus married Electra to a peasant?
6. "Electra": When Electra meets her brother and thinks he is a messenger, what does she tell him?
7. "The Bacchants": Why does Dionysus plot against the Thebans?
8. "The Bacchants": What does Agave do after killing Pentheus?
9. "The Bacchants": What does the stranger convince Pentheus to do after he hears the tale from the herdsman?
10. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Why does Iphigenia think human sacrifice is practiced in Taurus?
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