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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 is Electra doing when Orestes first sees her?
(a) Getting married.
(b) Singing.
(c) Attending a banquet.
(d) Dancing.

2. Who says our daily food is a small matter in Electra?
(a) Orestes.
(b) The farmer.
(c) Clytemnestra.
(d) Iphegenia.

3. Who does Electra call unfaithful, attractive to women, but a worthless coward underneath his pretty face?
(a) Clytemnestra.
(b) Aegisthus.
(c) Orestes.
(d) Pylades.

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

5. Who does Eteocles ask Creon to speak to of the coming war?
(a) Teiresius.
(b) Menoeceus.
(c) Pylades.
(d) Zeus.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the chorus inform Electra of in the beginning of Electra?

3. What kind of blade does Orestes use to skin the animal with Aegisthus?

4. What does Aegisthus take to predict the future?

5. What does the chorus do in Electra when Orestes is discovered?

(see the answer key)

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