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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. Electra condemns all men who confuse what with power?
(a) Money.
(b) Rage.
(c) Lust.
(d) Love.

2. Who invites the messengers into the cottage?
(a) The farmer.
(b) Aegisthus.
(c) Clytemnestra.
(d) Electra.

3. Who is Laius' son?
(a) Teiresius.
(b) Polyneices.
(c) Eteocles.
(d) Oedipus.

4. Who takes the first year of rule over Thebes, but will not give up the throne when it comes time for his brother to take over?
(a) Creon.
(b) Polyneices.
(c) Oedipus.
(d) Eteocles.

5. Whose marriage in Electra has NOT been consummated?
(a) Orestes'.
(b) Antigone's.
(c) Electra's.
(d) Clytemnestra's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Laius do with his son?

2. What does Orestes ask the old servant once he is discovered?

3. Who walks around Orestes looking at him in the cottage?

4. Who says that good character cannot be judged by riches, poverty or courage?

5. Who has a plan for how to kill Clytemnestra?

(see the answer key)

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