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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who tells Laius NOT to father a child?
(a) The Dioscuri.
(b) Oracles.
(c) Teiresius.
(d) Dionysus.

2. What has Oedipus outwitted in The Phoenician Women?
(a) The Dioscuri.
(b) A dragon.
(c) The king.
(d) The Sphinx.

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

4. The old servant tells Orestes he must kill Aegisthus, but not where?
(a) Within the city.
(b) In the country.
(c) By the river.
(d) On a grave.

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

6. 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.

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

8. 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) Clytemnestra's corpse.
(d) Aegisthus' corpse.

9. Who takes the first year of rule over Thebes, but will not give up the throne when it comes time for his brother to take over?
(a) Eteocles.
(b) Polyneices.
(c) Creon.
(d) Oedipus.

10. Who becomes Clytemnestra's lover?
(a) Orestes.
(b) Aegisthus.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Pentheus.

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

12. Who does Aegisthus beg to protect him and destroy his enemies?
(a) The Nymphs.
(b) Dionysus.
(c) Ares.
(d) Zeus.

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

14. Who says that good character cannot be judged by riches, poverty or courage?
(a) The farmer.
(b) Electra.
(c) Orestes.
(d) Pylades.

15. Whose marriage in Electra has NOT been consummated?
(a) Orestes'.
(b) Antigone's.
(c) Clytemnestra's.
(d) Electra's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Orestes' party find Aegisthus?

2. Who does Electra send her husband to go find when the strangers enter the cottage?

3. Who invites the messengers into the cottage?

4. What does Electra's husband chastise her for doing in the beginning of Electra?

5. What goddess will be celebrated in the beginning of Electra?

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