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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 does Aegisthus throw on the altar when with Orestes?
(a) Rice.
(b) Wine.
(c) Barley.
(d) Water.
2. Who does the chorus sing about that would right the wrongs being slain in Electra?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Electra and Orestes.
(c) Clytemnestra and Aegisthus.
(d) Antigone and Aegisthus.
3. Who kills Agamemnon?
(a) Iphegenia.
(b) Clytemnestra and Aegisthus.
(c) Antigone.
(d) Orestes and Electra.
4. The chorus in The Phoenician Women is waiting to be sent where?
(a) Apollo's shrine.
(b) Loxias' oracle.
(c) Dionysus' shrine.
(d) Teiresius' oracle.
5. Who walks around Orestes looking at him in the cottage?
(a) Electra.
(b) The servant.
(c) Aegisthus.
(d) Jocasta.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who locks Oedipus in the palace in shame?
2. How many children does Oedipus have?
3. What is Oedipus awarded for lifting the torment on Thebes?
4. Who does Electra send her husband to go find when the strangers enter the cottage?
5. Who does Electra tell that her husband is alive?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the central conflict in The Phoenician Women?
2. How does Clytemnestra's fate show how punishment for women is different than for men?
3. How are the deaths in the end of Electra received by the characters?
4. What is Electra doing when she first enters the play? What does her farmer chide her for?
5. How does Electra compare her situation to her mother's in part one of Electra, when speaking to the messenger (Orestes)?
6. Why does the servant say Orestes won't be killed by approaching Aegisthus?
7. What led to Oedipus' downfall?
8. What does the chorus sing of once Orestes and Electra exit in Part Two of Electra?
9. How does Electra react to the strangers coming into her home?
10. The end of the Electra reveals the author's (and likely the society's) point of view. What is it?
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