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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. Who has a plan for how to kill Clytemnestra?
(a) Electra.
(b) Aegisthus.
(c) Orestes.
(d) The old servant.

2. Who kills Agamemnon?
(a) Orestes and Electra.
(b) Antigone.
(c) Iphegenia.
(d) Clytemnestra and Aegisthus.

3. Who married Electra to her current husband?
(a) Pylades.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Aegisthus.
(d) Orestes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who walks around Orestes looking at him in the cottage?

2. What kind of knife does Orestes ask for to butcher the animal?

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

4. Clytemnestra claim's she only avenged whose death?

5. When Orestes returns in the end of Electra, what does he offer his sister to do with what she pleases?

(see the answer key)

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