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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the scene set before in The Phoenician Women?
(a) A funeral pyre.
(b) A fortress.
(c) A palace.
(d) A farmhouse.

4. The chorus in The Phoenician Women is waiting to be sent where?
(a) Loxias' oracle.
(b) Teiresius' oracle.
(c) Dionysus' shrine.
(d) Apollo's shrine.

5. Who does Electra tell her husband the messengers are from?
(a) Aegisthus.
(b) Orestes.
(c) Clytemnestra.
(d) Polyneices.

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

7. Who appears in the heavens at the end of Electra?
(a) Zeus.
(b) The Dioscuri.
(c) Artemis.
(d) Dionysus.

8. Who was Clytemnestra's first husband?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Aegisthus.
(c) Orestes.
(d) Pentheus.

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

10. Who does Orestes say must be repaid for his kindness?
(a) The farmer.
(b) The old man.
(c) Electra.
(d) Aegisthus.

11. Who is the wife of Laius?
(a) Antigone.
(b) Electra.
(c) Jocasta.
(d) Polyneices.

12. Whose servant arrives with food for Electra and her guests?
(a) Aegisthus'.
(b) Clytemnestra's.
(c) Agamemnon's.
(d) Orestes'.

13. By what is Orestes recognized?
(a) A scar.
(b) A freckle.
(c) His eyes.
(d) His mouth.

14. Where does The Phoenician Women take place?
(a) Argos.
(b) Thebes.
(c) Athens.
(d) Troy.

15. Who kills Laius in The Phoenician Women?
(a) Antigone.
(b) Eteocles.
(c) Oedipus.
(d) Jocasta.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Oedipus awarded for lifting the torment on Thebes?

2. What does Electra chide her husband for after the messenger has appeared?

3. Who is Agamemnon's son?

4. Where does Agamemnon go to fight?

5. Who becomes Clytemnestra's lover?

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