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

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

3. How many children does Oedipus have?
(a) Three.
(b) Ten.
(c) Six.
(d) Four.

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

5. When Orestes returns in the end of Electra, what does he offer his sister to do with what she pleases?
(a) The knife he used.
(b) Pylades' corpse.
(c) Clytemnestra's corpse.
(d) Aegisthus' corpse.

6. Clytemnestra claim's she only avenged whose death?
(a) Her mother's.
(b) Her husband's.
(c) Her son's.
(d) Her daughter's.

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

8. Who invites the messengers into the cottage?
(a) Aegisthus.
(b) Electra.
(c) Clytemnestra.
(d) The farmer.

9. Who is Clytemnestra's daughter?
(a) Antigone.
(b) Electra.
(c) Dioscuri.
(d) Pylades.

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

11. Who does the chorus sing of, that went with Agamemnon to war?
(a) Oedipus.
(b) Dioscuri.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Hera.

12. Who has Agamemnon brought back as a concubine from the war?
(a) Cassandra.
(b) Antigone.
(c) Clytemnestra.
(d) Iphegenia.

13. When Orestes returns, who does Electra praise for his faithful friendship?
(a) Pylades.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) The farmer.
(d) Aegisthus.

14. Who does Electra NOT want the body to be seen by?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Clytemnestra.
(c) Orestes.
(d) Pylades.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who appears in the heavens at the end of Electra?

2. Who kills Laius in The Phoenician Women?

3. By what is Orestes recognized?

4. Who is the wife of Laius?

5. In The Phoenician Women, who has been living in Argos and marries a woman there?

(see the answer keys)

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