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

2. What does Orestes ask the old servant once he is discovered?
(a) Whether Aegisthus is dead.
(b) Whether he has any friends left in Argos.
(c) Whether his fiancee is married.
(d) Whether Agamemnon is alive.

3. What does Electra's husband chastise her for doing in the beginning of Electra?
(a) Servile tasks.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Singing.
(d) Beating a cow.

4. Who does Electra call unfaithful, attractive to women, but a worthless coward underneath his pretty face?
(a) Orestes.
(b) Aegisthus.
(c) Pylades.
(d) Clytemnestra.

5. Who says that good character cannot be judged by riches, poverty or courage?
(a) The farmer.
(b) Orestes.
(c) Pylades.
(d) Electra.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aegisthus take to predict the future?

2. Who is the wife of Laius?

3. What does Laius do with his son?

4. Who has Agamemnon brought back as a concubine from the war?

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

(see the answer key)

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