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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who kills Agamemnon?
(a) Iphegenia.
(b) Antigone.
(c) Orestes and Electra.
(d) Clytemnestra and Aegisthus.
2. What has Orestes returned to do in Electra?
(a) Take the crown from his brother.
(b) Marry Iphegenia.
(c) Kill Aegisthus and Clytemnestra.
(d) Marry Electra.
3. 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) Oedipus.
(b) Creon.
(c) Eteocles.
(d) Polyneices.
4. What does Electra have upon hear head when she first enters the play?
(a) A wig.
(b) A tiara.
(c) A water jug.
(d) A crown.
5. Who enters with Antigone in her first entrance in The Phoenician Women?
(a) The pedagogue.
(b) Teiresius.
(c) Jocasta.
(d) Polyneices.
6. Who makes up the chorus in Electra?
(a) Argive peasant women.
(b) Phoenician women.
(c) Thebian peasant women.
(d) Trojan women.
7. Who has Agamemnon brought back as a concubine from the war?
(a) Cassandra.
(b) Antigone.
(c) Clytemnestra.
(d) Iphegenia.
8. Who does Orestes say must be repaid for his kindness?
(a) Electra.
(b) The old man.
(c) Aegisthus.
(d) The farmer.
9. Who is Agamemnon's son?
(a) Oedipus.
(b) Orestes.
(c) Dioscuri.
(d) Pylades.
10. Who invites the messengers into the cottage?
(a) Aegisthus.
(b) Electra.
(c) Clytemnestra.
(d) The farmer.
11. Who appears in the heavens at the end of Electra?
(a) Dionysus.
(b) Zeus.
(c) The Dioscuri.
(d) Artemis.
12. Whose servant arrives with food for Electra and her guests?
(a) Aegisthus'.
(b) Orestes'.
(c) Clytemnestra's.
(d) Agamemnon's.
13. How did Orestes attain the mark the servant speaks of?
(a) He was dropped as a child.
(b) Chasing a fawn.
(c) He was shot with an arrow.
(d) He was born with it.
14. What does Orestes ask the old servant once he is discovered?
(a) Whether Agamemnon is alive.
(b) Whether Aegisthus is dead.
(c) Whether he has any friends left in Argos.
(d) Whether his fiancee is married.
15. Where does Orestes' party find Aegisthus?
(a) At the palace.
(b) By the fortress.
(c) On the war field.
(d) Walking in a meadow.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who has a plan for how to kill Clytemnestra?
2. Clytemnestra claim's she only avenged whose death?
3. Who is killed in sacrifice for the Trojan War?
4. Whose marriage in Electra has NOT been consummated?
5. When Oedipus learns the truth about his background, what does he do?
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