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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Electra, pages 23-42.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long is Agamemnon gone to war?
(a) Fifteen years.
(b) Three years.
(c) One year.
(d) Ten years.

2. Whose marriage in Electra has NOT been consummated?
(a) Antigone's.
(b) Orestes'.
(c) Electra's.
(d) Clytemnestra's.

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

4. Who invites the messengers into the cottage?
(a) Clytemnestra.
(b) Electra.
(c) Aegisthus.
(d) The farmer.

5. What is the opening scene of Electra?
(a) A castle.
(b) A war field.
(c) A tower.
(d) A farm cottage.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who makes up the chorus in Electra?

2. What does Orestes ask the old servant once he is discovered?

3. Who is Agamemnon's son?

4. Who enters with Orestes in his first appearance in Electra?

5. What does Electra's husband chastise her for doing in the beginning of Electra?

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