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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 enters with Antigone in her first entrance in The Phoenician Women?
(a) Polyneices.
(b) Jocasta.
(c) Teiresius.
(d) The pedagogue.

2. Who does Electra say would recognize her brother if he saw him?
(a) Iphegenia.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her father's servant.

3. In what city-state does Clytemnestra rule?
(a) Troy.
(b) Athens.
(c) Thebes.
(d) Argos.

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

5. Who does Electra tell that her husband is alive?
(a) Clytemnestra.
(b) Orestes.
(c) Eteocles.
(d) Agamemnon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Aegisthus beg to protect him and destroy his enemies?

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

3. Who kills Agamemnon?

4. Who is Electra married to?

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

(see the answer key)

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