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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 locks Oedipus in the palace in shame?
(a) His daughters.
(b) His wife.
(c) Creon.
(d) His sons.

2. What does Laius do with his son?
(a) Sells him to a farmer.
(b) Kills him.
(c) Buries him alive.
(d) Abandons him to die.

3. Who kills the dragon that Ares has fathered?
(a) Teiresius.
(b) Eteocles.
(c) Oedipus.
(d) Cadmus.

4. How did Orestes attain the mark the servant speaks of?
(a) He was born with it.
(b) He was dropped as a child.
(c) He was shot with an arrow.
(d) Chasing a fawn.

5. Who does Oedipus marry?
(a) Electra.
(b) Antigone.
(c) Jocasta.
(d) Eteocles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aegisthus take to predict the future?

2. Orestes fears being tried for what?

3. Who has Agamemnon brought back as a concubine from the war?

4. The old servant tells Orestes he must kill Aegisthus, but not where?

5. Whose marriage in Electra has NOT been consummated?

(see the answer key)

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