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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 main characteristic?
(a) Blindness.
(b) Deafness.
(c) Shortness.
(d) Baldness.
2. "Iphigenia at Aulis": How does Iphigenia go to the altar?
(a) Unhappily.
(b) Bound.
(c) Carried.
(d) Willingly.
3. "The Bacchants": What tells the women to burn down the house of Pentheus?
(a) A moonbeam.
(b) A lightning bolt.
(c) A nymph.
(d) A thunderbolt.
4. "Electra":, Why has Electra's husband not slept with her?
(a) Out of decency and fear of Electra's brother.
(b) Out of decency and fear of the gods.
(c) Out of decency and fear of the king.
(d) Out of decency and fear of the Fates.
5. "Iphigenia at Aulis": What does Agamemnon give to the servant to take to his family?
(a) His robe.
(b) Money.
(c) His riches.
(d) A letter.
Short Answer Questions
1. "Electra": Who tells Orestes and Electra what the future has in store for them?
2. "Electra": Who tells Electra Aegisthus is successfully murdered?
3. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Of what crime does Iphigenia plan to claim the two men are guilty making them unclean?
4. "Iphigenia at Aulis": When the priest was about to slit Iphigenia's throat, what appeared in her place?
5. "Iphigenia at Aulis": Who stole Helen?
Short Essay Questions
1. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Why does Iphigenia think human sacrifice is practiced in Taurus?
2. "Trojan Women": What does Cassandra tell Hecuba after her prediction about Agamemnon?
3. "Trojan Women": Why is Hecuba enraged about being Odysseus's slave?
4. "Electra": When Electra meets her brother and thinks he is a messenger, what does she tell him?
5. "Trojan Women": Why has Athena decided to attack her former allies?
6. "Iphigenia at Aulis": How does Agamemnon convince his daughter and wife to come to his camp?
7. "Electra": Why has the peasant not slept with Electra?
8. "Iphigenia among Taurians": How does Iphigenia get the idol to the ship?
9. "Iphigenia at Aulis": Why does Achilles vow to defend Iphigenia?
10. "Iphigenia at Aulis": What prophecy has Calchas made?
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