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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who is Electra married to?
(a) Pylades.
(b) A poor farmer.
(c) Orestes.
(d) Aegisthus.
2. What does Electra chide her husband for after the messenger has appeared?
(a) Abusing her.
(b) Mistrusting her.
(c) Not feeding her.
(d) Raping her.
3. Who recognizes Orestes in the cottage?
(a) Agamemnon's servant.
(b) Electra.
(c) Clytemnestra.
(d) Aegisthus.
4. Who does Electra send her husband to go find when the strangers enter the cottage?
(a) Clytemnestra.
(b) Aegisthus.
(c) Iphegenia.
(d) Her father's servant.
5. What kind of blade does Orestes use to skin the animal with Aegisthus?
(a) Artemen.
(b) Curmean.
(c) Dorian.
(d) Trojan.
6. Where does The Phoenician Women take place?
(a) Troy.
(b) Thebes.
(c) Argos.
(d) Athens.
7. Who has called a truce to attempt to make peace in The Phoenician Women?
(a) Oedipus.
(b) Antigone.
(c) Jocasta.
(d) Polyneices.
8. Who says to the dead Aegisthus that his marriage was godless and filled with evil?
(a) Clytemnestra.
(b) Orestes.
(c) Electra.
(d) The farmer.
9. In The Phoenician Women, who has been living in Argos and marries a woman there?
(a) Polyneices.
(b) Oedipus.
(c) Teiresius.
(d) Eteocles.
10. What does Electra's husband say that it's improper for Electra to do?
(a) Speak with strange men.
(b) Dance.
(c) Sing.
(d) Go to festivals.
11. Who does Electra say would recognize her brother if he saw him?
(a) Iphegenia.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her father's servant.
12. When Orestes returns, who does Electra praise for his faithful friendship?
(a) Pylades.
(b) The farmer.
(c) Aegisthus.
(d) Agamemnon.
13. The old servant tells Orestes he must kill Aegisthus, but not where?
(a) By the river.
(b) On a grave.
(c) In the country.
(d) Within the city.
14. 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.
15. What has Oedipus outwitted in The Phoenician Women?
(a) A dragon.
(b) The Sphinx.
(c) The Dioscuri.
(d) The king.
Short Answer Questions
1. Whose servant arrives with food for Electra and her guests?
2. Who kills Agamemnon?
3. Who does Electra NOT want the body to be seen by?
4. Where does Agamemnon go to fight?
5. Orestes tells Electra that he's having second thoughts about killing whom?
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