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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. What kind of blade does Orestes use to skin the animal with Aegisthus?
(a) Trojan.
(b) Artemen.
(c) Curmean.
(d) Dorian.

2. Who does Creon tell Eteocles has captured an opposing soldier?
(a) Athenians.
(b) Trojans.
(c) Argives.
(d) Thebes.

3. What kind of knife does Orestes ask for to butcher the animal?
(a) Dorian.
(b) Arteman.
(c) Andrean.
(d) Phthian.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whose daughter is Polyneices married?

2. What does Orestes ask the old servant once he is discovered?

3. Who says our daily food is a small matter in Electra?

4. Who is Laius' son?

5. Whose life does the chorus bemoan before the battle in The Phoenician Women?

(see the answer key)

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