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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) Electra.
(b) Dioscuri.
(c) Antigone.
(d) Pylades.

2. How many children does Oedipus have?
(a) Six.
(b) Four.
(c) Ten.
(d) Three.

3. When Orestes returns, who does Electra praise for his faithful friendship?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Aegisthus.
(c) The farmer.
(d) Pylades.

4. Who makes up the chorus in Electra?
(a) Phoenician women.
(b) Argive peasant women.
(c) Thebian peasant women.
(d) Trojan women.

5. Clytemnestra claim's she only avenged whose death?
(a) Her mother's.
(b) Her daughter's.
(c) Her son's.
(d) Her husband's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Orestes tells Electra that he's having second thoughts about killing whom?

2. What does Electra ask her husband to get for them?

3. Who recognizes Orestes in the cottage?

4. Where does Orestes' party find Aegisthus?

5. Who accompanies Creon to see Teiresius?

(see the answer key)

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