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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 among Taurians": Of what crime does Iphigenia plan to claim the two men are guilty making them unclean?
(a) Homicide.
(b) Patricide.
(c) Matricide.
(d) Fratricide.

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

3. "Trojan Women": What happens to the citadel when Hecuba is done burying her grandson?
(a) It collapses.
(b) It goes up in flames.
(c) Nothing.
(d) It stops burning.

4. "The Bacchants": Who has not respected his Bacchic rites?
(a) The Corinthians.
(b) The Thebans.
(c) The Dorians.
(d) The Athenians.

5. "Trojan Women": The play begins after the fall of what city?
(a) Athens.
(b) Corinth.
(c) Sparta.
(d) Troy.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Iphigenia among Taurians": What do the Taurians perform for their goddess?

2. "Electra": The king has heard that Thessalians are master butchers of what?

3. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Who tells the king of Iphigenia's deceit?

4. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Who is the king of Thrace?

5. "Trojan Women": How do the Greeks kill Andromache's son?

Short Essay Questions

1. "Iphigenia at Aulis": How does Agamemnon convince his daughter and wife to come to his camp?

2. "Electra": When Electra meets her brother and thinks he is a messenger, what does she tell him?

3. "Trojan Women": What does Cassandra tell Hecuba after her prediction about Agamemnon?

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

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

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

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

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

9. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Why do the men capture Pylades and Orestes?

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

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