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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Electra, pages 42-66.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Orestes ask the old servant once he is discovered?
(a) Whether he has any friends left in Argos.
(b) Whether Aegisthus is dead.
(c) Whether his fiancee is married.
(d) Whether Agamemnon is alive.

2. Where does Agamemnon go to fight?
(a) Argos.
(b) Thebes.
(c) Olympus.
(d) Troy.

3. Who does Orestes tell Aegisthus he is going to make a sacrifice for?
(a) Ares.
(b) Artemis.
(c) Hera.
(d) Zeus.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has Agamemnon brought back as a concubine from the war?

2. Who does Orestes pretend to be when he meets his sister?

3. What is Aegisthus preparing to offer the goddess Nymphs in Electra?

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

5. The old servant tells Orestes he must kill Aegisthus, but not where?

(see the answer key)

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