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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) Clytemnestra and Aegisthus.
(d) Orestes and Electra.

2. What does Electra have upon hear head when she first enters the play?
(a) A wig.
(b) A crown.
(c) A water jug.
(d) A tiara.

3. Who appears in the heavens at the end of Electra?
(a) Dionysus.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Artemis.
(d) The Dioscuri.

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

5. Who is the wife of Laius?
(a) Jocasta.
(b) Antigone.
(c) Electra.
(d) Polyneices.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Electra chide her husband for after the messenger has appeared?

2. Who makes up the chorus in Electra?

3. Who invites the messengers into the cottage?

4. Who does the chorus sing of, that went with Agamemnon to war?

5. Who walks around Orestes looking at him in the cottage?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who recognizes Orestes?

2. Why and with whom has Orestes returned to Argos? Where do we first find him in the play Electra?

3. Who tells Electra of the upcoming feast? Why does she refuse to go?

4. What does Orestes comment on about riches regarding the farmer? What prompts this?

5. How does Electra react to the strangers coming into her home?

6. What does Electra do when she first sees Orestes?

7. How does Electra compare her situation to her mother's in part one of Electra, when speaking to the messenger (Orestes)?

8. How is Antigone's entrance in The Phoenician Women used as an aid to the audience?

9. How does Clytemnestra's fate show how punishment for women is different than for men?

10. What does Orestes say of Electra's husband (as he pretends to be the messenger)?

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