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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 Electra ask her husband to get for them?
(a) Weapons.
(b) Provisions.
(c) Gold.
(d) Spices.

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

3. Whose servant arrives with food for Electra and her guests?
(a) Orestes'.
(b) Clytemnestra's.
(c) Agamemnon's.
(d) Aegisthus'.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who says that good character cannot be judged by riches, poverty or courage?

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

4. Who invites the messengers into the cottage?

5. Who does Orestes tell Aegisthus that he and his party are?

(see the answer key)

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