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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Phoenician Women, pages 73-98.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Oedipus awarded for lifting the torment on Thebes?
(a) A diamond.
(b) Noblehood.
(c) The kingdom.
(d) Gold.

3. For what does Aegisthus offer Orestes party water?
(a) To clean meat.
(b) To drink.
(c) To give to their maidens.
(d) To wash.

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

5. What does Laius do with his son?
(a) Kills him.
(b) Buries him alive.
(c) Sells him to a farmer.
(d) Abandons him to die.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what is Orestes recognized?

2. Who does Electra call unfaithful, attractive to women, but a worthless coward underneath his pretty face?

3. Where does Agamemnon go to fight?

4. Who does Electra send her husband to go find when the strangers enter the cottage?

5. Who does the chorus sing of, that went with Agamemnon to war?

(see the answer key)

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