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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. What does Electra ask her husband to get for them?
(a) Spices.
(b) Provisions.
(c) Gold.
(d) Weapons.

2. Who walks around Orestes looking at him in the cottage?
(a) Aegisthus.
(b) Jocasta.
(c) Electra.
(d) The servant.

3. What does Aegisthus take to predict the future?
(a) A bowl of water.
(b) A mirror.
(c) Tea leaves.
(d) The bull's innards.

4. When Orestes returns in the end of Electra, what does he offer his sister to do with what she pleases?
(a) Aegisthus' corpse.
(b) Pylades' corpse.
(c) Clytemnestra's corpse.
(d) The knife he used.

5. Who is Agamemnon's son?
(a) Orestes.
(b) Pylades.
(c) Dioscuri.
(d) Oedipus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Oedipus marry?

2. 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?

3. Where does The Phoenician Women take place?

4. The chorus in The Phoenician Women is waiting to be sent where?

5. Whose marriage in Electra has NOT been consummated?

(see the answer key)

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