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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. What is Electra doing when Orestes first sees her?
(a) Getting married.
(b) Singing.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Attending a banquet.
2. Who does Aegisthus want to kill for fear of revenge?
(a) Orestes.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Pylades.
(d) Clytemnestra.
3. Who does Electra say would recognize her brother if he saw him?
(a) Iphegenia.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her father's servant.
(d) Her mother.
4. Who makes up the chorus in Electra?
(a) Argive peasant women.
(b) Phoenician women.
(c) Thebian peasant women.
(d) Trojan women.
5. Who recognizes Orestes in the cottage?
(a) Agamemnon's servant.
(b) Clytemnestra.
(c) Electra.
(d) Aegisthus.
Short Answer Questions
1. 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?
2. How did Orestes attain the mark the servant speaks of?
3. Who married Electra to her current husband?
4. Who was Clytemnestra's first husband?
5. Electra condemns all men who are what to their wives?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who delivers the final judgment in Electra? What is it?
2. What does Orestes ask of the old man at the cottage?
3. Who brings Electra food for their guests? What does he bring? What is his connection to Orestes?
4. What of Electra's demeanor in Part Three builds the tension of the play? What does she feel when she hears word from the messenger?
5. Why does the servant say Orestes won't be killed by approaching Aegisthus?
6. What does Electra do when she first sees Orestes?
7. Who tells Electra of the upcoming feast? Why does she refuse to go?
8. Describe the dramatic irony in the messenger's speech to Electra in Part Three of the play.
9. How does Electra compare her situation to her mother's in part one of Electra, when speaking to the messenger (Orestes)?
10. What does Orestes say of Electra's husband (as he pretends to be the messenger)?
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