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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 enters with Orestes in his first appearance in Electra?
(a) Jocasta.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Aegisthus.
(d) Pylades.

2. Who is killed in sacrifice for the Trojan War?
(a) Hermia.
(b) Dioscuri.
(c) Iphegenia.
(d) Eteocles.

3. The chorus in The Phoenician Women is waiting to be sent where?
(a) Loxias' oracle.
(b) Apollo's shrine.
(c) Dionysus' shrine.
(d) Teiresius' oracle.

4. Who has Agamemnon brought back as a concubine from the war?
(a) Clytemnestra.
(b) Antigone.
(c) Iphegenia.
(d) Cassandra.

5. Who takes the first year of rule over Thebes, but will not give up the throne when it comes time for his brother to take over?
(a) Oedipus.
(b) Eteocles.
(c) Polyneices.
(d) Creon.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children does Oedipus have?

2. What has Oedipus outwitted in The Phoenician Women?

3. Who does Electra NOT want the body to be seen by?

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

5. What does Electra's husband say that it's improper for Electra to do?

(see the answer key)

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