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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 the chorus sing of, that went with Agamemnon to war?
(a) Hera.
(b) Achilles.
(c) Oedipus.
(d) Dioscuri.

2. What goddess will be celebrated in the beginning of Electra?
(a) Hera.
(b) Artemis.
(c) Semele.
(d) Antigone.

3. Who is Agamemnon's son?
(a) Oedipus.
(b) Orestes.
(c) Pylades.
(d) Dioscuri.

4. Who has called a truce to attempt to make peace in The Phoenician Women?
(a) Jocasta.
(b) Oedipus.
(c) Polyneices.
(d) Antigone.

5. Who says to the dead Aegisthus that his marriage was godless and filled with evil?
(a) Electra.
(b) Orestes.
(c) Clytemnestra.
(d) The farmer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who appears in the heavens at the end of Electra?

2. Who is the wife of Laius?

3. Who enters with Antigone in her first entrance in The Phoenician Women?

4. Who enters with Orestes in his first appearance in Electra?

5. When Oedipus learns the truth about his background, what does he do?

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