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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 does Electra NOT want the body to be seen by?
(a) Clytemnestra.
(b) Orestes.
(c) Pylades.
(d) Agamemnon.

2. Who is the wife of Laius?
(a) Antigone.
(b) Jocasta.
(c) Electra.
(d) Polyneices.

3. Who makes up the chorus in Electra?
(a) Argive peasant women.
(b) Thebian peasant women.
(c) Trojan women.
(d) Phoenician women.

4. Who does Orestes pretend to be when he meets his sister?
(a) A messenger.
(b) A beggar.
(c) A farmer.
(d) A king.

5. Who is Laius' son?
(a) Teiresius.
(b) Eteocles.
(c) Oedipus.
(d) Polyneices.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who kills Laius in The Phoenician Women?

2. Electra condemns all men who are what to their wives?

3. Who recognizes Orestes in the cottage?

4. What has Orestes returned to do in Electra?

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

(see the answer key)

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