Euripides V Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Euripides V Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Electra condemns all men who confuse what with power?
(a) Rage.
(b) Money.
(c) Lust.
(d) Love.

2. Who says our daily food is a small matter in Electra?
(a) Orestes.
(b) The farmer.
(c) Iphegenia.
(d) Clytemnestra.

3. What does Electra chide her husband for after the messenger has appeared?
(a) Abusing her.
(b) Mistrusting her.
(c) Raping her.
(d) Not feeding her.

4. Who does Electra explain to her guests the servant is?
(a) The one who saved Orestes.
(b) The one who works for Clytemnestra.
(c) The one who killed Pylades.
(d) The one who killed Agamemnon.

5. Who recognizes Orestes in the cottage?
(a) Agamemnon's servant.
(b) Aegisthus.
(c) Electra.
(d) Clytemnestra.

6. What does Electra ask her husband to get for them?
(a) Provisions.
(b) Weapons.
(c) Gold.
(d) Spices.

7. Who is killed in sacrifice for the Trojan War?
(a) Eteocles.
(b) Dioscuri.
(c) Iphegenia.
(d) Hermia.

8. What food and provisions are brought to Electra for her and her guests?
(a) Bull, mead and water.
(b) Lamb, olives, and water.
(c) Lamb, onions, and potatoes.
(d) Lamb, flowers, cheese and wine.

9. Who does Electra ask to hide the body of Aegisthus?
(a) Orestes.
(b) Pylades.
(c) The chorus.
(d) The farmer.

10. In The Phoenician Women, who has been living in Argos and marries a woman there?
(a) Polyneices.
(b) Eteocles.
(c) Teiresius.
(d) Oedipus.

11. Who enters with Antigone in her first entrance in The Phoenician Women?
(a) Jocasta.
(b) The pedagogue.
(c) Teiresius.
(d) Polyneices.

12. Who does Electra send her husband to go find when the strangers enter the cottage?
(a) Clytemnestra.
(b) Iphegenia.
(c) Aegisthus.
(d) Her father's servant.

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

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

15. Electra condemns all men who are what to their wives?
(a) Second.
(b) Abusive.
(c) Trusting.
(d) Loving.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who invites the messengers into the cottage?

2. What does the chorus inform Electra of in the beginning of Electra?

3. Who does Oedipus marry?

4. Who does Orestes say must be repaid for his kindness?

5. 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?

(see the answer keys)

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