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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 food and provisions are brought to Electra for her and her guests?
(a) Bull, mead and water.
(b) Lamb, flowers, cheese and wine.
(c) Lamb, olives, and water.
(d) Lamb, onions, and potatoes.

2. Who appears in the heavens at the end of Electra?
(a) The Dioscuri.
(b) Artemis.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Dionysus.

3. Orestes tells Electra that he's having second thoughts about killing whom?
(a) Aegisthus.
(b) Iphegenia.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Clytemnestra.

4. Who was Clytemnestra's first husband?
(a) Orestes.
(b) Pentheus.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Aegisthus.

5. Who does Orestes tell Aegisthus that he and his party are?
(a) Trojans.
(b) Argives.
(c) Thessalians.
(d) Thebians.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Electra explain to her guests the servant is?

3. Whose servant arrives with food for Electra and her guests?

4. Who married Electra to her current husband?

5. Who invites the messengers into the cottage?

(see the answer key)

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