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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 Electra married to?
(a) A poor farmer.
(b) Pylades.
(c) Aegisthus.
(d) Orestes.

2. Who says our daily food is a small matter in Electra?
(a) Clytemnestra.
(b) The farmer.
(c) Orestes.
(d) Iphegenia.

3. Orestes fears being tried for what?
(a) Theft.
(b) Matricide.
(c) Patricide.
(d) Murder.

4. Who kills Agamemnon?
(a) Antigone.
(b) Iphegenia.
(c) Orestes and Electra.
(d) Clytemnestra and Aegisthus.

5. Who recognizes Orestes in the cottage?
(a) Agamemnon's servant.
(b) Aegisthus.
(c) Clytemnestra.
(d) Electra.

Short Answer Questions

1. Orestes tells Electra that he's having second thoughts about killing whom?

2. What is the scene set before in The Phoenician Women?

3. Who does Electra say was NOT properly buried?

4. In The Phoenician Women, who has been living in Argos and marries a woman there?

5. Where does Agamemnon go to fight?

(see the answer key)

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