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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Phoenician Women, pages 114-140.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who makes up the chorus in Electra?
(a) Trojan women.
(b) Argive peasant women.
(c) Phoenician women.
(d) Thebian peasant women.

2. Who invites the messengers into the cottage?
(a) Clytemnestra.
(b) The farmer.
(c) Electra.
(d) Aegisthus.

3. In The Phoenician Women, who has been living in Argos and marries a woman there?
(a) Polyneices.
(b) Eteocles.
(c) Oedipus.
(d) Teiresius.

4. Who does Eteocles pray to for victory in the duel?
(a) Hera.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Pallas.
(d) Ares.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Electra's husband chastise her for doing in the beginning of Electra?

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

3. How does Eteocles suggest they attack the opposing army?

4. Who does the chorus sing about that would right the wrongs being slain in Electra?

5. Who has a plan for how to kill Clytemnestra?

(see the answer key)

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