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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 kind of blade does Orestes use to skin the animal with Aegisthus?
(a) Dorian.
(b) Artemen.
(c) Curmean.
(d) Trojan.

2. Where does Agamemnon go to fight?
(a) Troy.
(b) Argos.
(c) Olympus.
(d) Thebes.

3. Who married Electra to her current husband?
(a) Pylades.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Aegisthus.
(d) Orestes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Electra tell her husband the messengers are from?

2. What does Electra ask her husband to get for them?

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

4. Who is Clytemnestra's daughter?

5. Who kills Agamemnon?

(see the answer key)

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