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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. What has Orestes returned to do in Electra?
(a) Marry Electra.
(b) Take the crown from his brother.
(c) Kill Aegisthus and Clytemnestra.
(d) Marry Iphegenia.

2. Who tells Laius NOT to father a child?
(a) Teiresius.
(b) Oracles.
(c) The Dioscuri.
(d) Dionysus.

3. What food and provisions are brought to Electra for her and her guests?
(a) Bull, mead and water.
(b) Lamb, flowers, cheese and wine.
(c) Lamb, olives, and water.
(d) Lamb, onions, and potatoes.

4. Who is Clytemnestra's daughter?
(a) Pylades.
(b) Electra.
(c) Dioscuri.
(d) Antigone.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who recognizes Orestes in the cottage?

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

5. The chorus in The Phoenician Women is waiting to be sent where?

(see the answer key)

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