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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the chorus inform Electra of in the beginning of Electra?
(a) Her brother's arrival.
(b) A funeral.
(c) A wedding.
(d) An upcoming feast day.

5. Who does Orestes pretend to be when he meets his sister?
(a) A farmer.
(b) A beggar.
(c) A messenger.
(d) A king.

6. What is Electra doing when Orestes first sees her?
(a) Singing.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Attending a banquet.
(d) Getting married.

7. Who says to the dead Aegisthus that his marriage was godless and filled with evil?
(a) Clytemnestra.
(b) The farmer.
(c) Electra.
(d) Orestes.

8. Who married Electra to her current husband?
(a) Pylades.
(b) Aegisthus.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Orestes.

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

10. What goddess will be celebrated in the beginning of Electra?
(a) Hera.
(b) Semele.
(c) Artemis.
(d) Antigone.

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

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

13. Who is Laius' son?
(a) Teiresius.
(b) Eteocles.
(c) Polyneices.
(d) Oedipus.

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

15. 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) Polyneices.
(b) Creon.
(c) Eteocles.
(d) Oedipus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Orestes ask the old servant once he is discovered?

2. Electra condemns all men who confuse what with power?

3. Who enters with Antigone in her first entrance in The Phoenician Women?

4. Who tells Laius NOT to father a child?

5. Who does Orestes tell Aegisthus that he and his party are?

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