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

2. To whom is Antigone planned to wed?
(a) Polyneices.
(b) Menoeceus.
(c) Thesius.
(d) Haemon.

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

4. Orestes tells Electra that he's having second thoughts about killing whom?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Iphegenia.
(c) Clytemnestra.
(d) Aegisthus.

5. Who is exiled at the end of The Phoenician Women?
(a) Oedipus.
(b) Teiresius.
(c) Menoeceus.
(d) Creon.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what is Orestes recognized?

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

3. Who retreats when realizing the gods are against him?

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

5. Who locks Oedipus in the palace in shame?

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