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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Electra": How is Electra going to lure her mother out to her house?

2. "Trojan Women": What is the name of Andromache's young son?

3. "The Bacchants": Under whose rule did the people not respected the Bacchic rites?

4. "Trojan Women": Who joins Poseidon and says she has decided to attack the Greeks?

5. "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?

Short Essay Questions

1. "Electra": Why has the peasant not slept with Electra?

2. "Trojan Women": Why has Athena decided to attack her former allies?

3. "The Bacchants": After the stranger escapes from jail, what tale does the herdsman tell Pentheus?

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

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

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

7. "Trojan Women": What does Cassandra predict as the fate of Agamemnon?

8. What are the first spoken lines in "Iphigenia at Aulis"?

9. "Iphigenia at Aulis": What prophecy has Calchas made?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Based on the examples provided in the play, what is the distinction made between following the rules and averting tragedy? How is this related to the distinction between nature and convention?

Essay Topic 2

What is a Deus ex Machina? How does Euripides use it?

Essay Topic 3

What is the definition of a stranger, as described in the plays? What is the importance of a stranger? What evidence from the plays can you cite in support of your position?

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