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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 is the scene set before in The Phoenician Women?
(a) A farmhouse.
(b) A palace.
(c) A funeral pyre.
(d) A fortress.

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

3. Who tells Laius NOT to father a child?
(a) Oracles.
(b) Teiresius.
(c) Dionysus.
(d) The Dioscuri.

4. Who has Agamemnon brought back as a concubine from the war?
(a) Clytemnestra.
(b) Antigone.
(c) Cassandra.
(d) Iphegenia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Oedipus marry?

2. Who has called a truce to attempt to make peace in The Phoenician Women?

3. What is the opening scene of Electra?

4. Who says to the dead Aegisthus that his marriage was godless and filled with evil?

5. Electra condemns all men who are what to their wives?

(see the answer key)

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