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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who kills Agamemnon?
(a) Antigone.
(b) Iphegenia.
(c) Orestes and Electra.
(d) Clytemnestra and Aegisthus.
2. Who does Electra call unfaithful, attractive to women, but a worthless coward underneath his pretty face?
(a) Clytemnestra.
(b) Pylades.
(c) Orestes.
(d) Aegisthus.
3. Who comes to inform Electra of the success of Orestes' deed?
(a) Agamemnon's servant.
(b) Orestes' servant.
(c) Agamemon.
(d) Clytemnestra.
4. What food and provisions are brought to Electra for her and her guests?
(a) Lamb, onions, and potatoes.
(b) Lamb, flowers, cheese and wine.
(c) Lamb, olives, and water.
(d) Bull, mead and water.
5. Who says to the dead Aegisthus that his marriage was godless and filled with evil?
(a) Orestes.
(b) Clytemnestra.
(c) Electra.
(d) The farmer.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Aegisthus throw on the altar when with Orestes?
2. Who does Electra ask to hide the body of Aegisthus?
3. What is Oedipus awarded for lifting the torment on Thebes?
4. Who invites the messengers into the cottage?
5. What does Aegisthus take to predict the future?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does the servant say Orestes won't be killed by approaching Aegisthus?
2. What is the central conflict in The Phoenician Women?
3. What does the chorus sing of once Orestes and Electra exit in Part Two of Electra?
4. Why and with whom has Orestes returned to Argos? Where do we first find him in the play Electra?
5. What does Electra do when she first sees Orestes?
6. How does Clytemnestra's fate show how punishment for women is different than for men?
7. What is Electra doing when she first enters the play? What does her farmer chide her for?
8. What led to Oedipus' downfall?
9. Who delivers the final judgment in Electra? What is it?
10. How is Antigone's entrance in The Phoenician Women used as an aid to the audience?
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