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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. Whose servant arrives with food for Electra and her guests?
(a) Agamemnon's.
(b) Clytemnestra's.
(c) Aegisthus'.
(d) Orestes'.

2. Who does Electra say was NOT properly buried?
(a) Clytemnestra.
(b) Iphegenia.
(c) Aegisthus.
(d) Agamemnon.

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

4. Who becomes Clytemnestra's lover?
(a) Pentheus.
(b) Aegisthus.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Orestes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Electra's husband chastise her for doing in the beginning of Electra?

2. Who has a plan for how to kill Clytemnestra?

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

4. Who makes up the chorus in Electra?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who delivers the final judgment in Electra? What is it?

3. What led to Oedipus' downfall?

4. What does the chorus sing of once Orestes and Electra exit in Part Two of Electra?

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

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

7. Describe the dramatic irony in the messenger's speech to Electra in Part Three of the play.

8. What does Electra tell the messenger (Orestes) to relay to him about returning?

9. Why does the servant say Orestes won't be killed by approaching Aegisthus?

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

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