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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Phoenician Women, pages 98-113.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Clytemnestra's daughter?
(a) Antigone.
(b) Electra.
(c) Pylades.
(d) Dioscuri.

2. Who tells Laius NOT to father a child?
(a) The Dioscuri.
(b) Teiresius.
(c) Oracles.
(d) Dionysus.

3. Who enters with Orestes in his first appearance in Electra?
(a) Pylades.
(b) Aegisthus.
(c) Jocasta.
(d) Agamemnon.

4. Who does Orestes tell Aegisthus that he and his party are?
(a) Argives.
(b) Thebians.
(c) Thessalians.
(d) Trojans.

5. The chorus in The Phoenician Women is waiting to be sent where?
(a) Apollo's shrine.
(b) Dionysus' shrine.
(c) Loxias' oracle.
(d) Teiresius' oracle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Electra NOT want the body to be seen by?

2. Who kills Laius in The Phoenician Women?

3. Who does Electra explain to her guests the servant is?

4. Who does Creon tell Eteocles has captured an opposing soldier?

5. Who is Antigone's betrothed husband the son of?

(see the answer key)

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