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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 Oedipus awarded for lifting the torment on Thebes?
(a) The kingdom.
(b) Noblehood.
(c) Gold.
(d) A diamond.

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

3. When Orestes returns in the end of Electra, what does he offer his sister to do with what she pleases?
(a) Aegisthus' corpse.
(b) The knife he used.
(c) Clytemnestra's corpse.
(d) Pylades' corpse.

4. Whose servant arrives with food for Electra and her guests?
(a) Orestes'.
(b) Agamemnon's.
(c) Clytemnestra's.
(d) Aegisthus'.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the chorus sing of, that went with Agamemnon to war?

2. Who is Laius' son?

3. How did Orestes attain the mark the servant speaks of?

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

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

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