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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 appears in the heavens at the end of Electra?
(a) Artemis.
(b) Dionysus.
(c) Zeus.
(d) The Dioscuri.
2. Orestes tells Electra that he's having second thoughts about killing whom?
(a) Aegisthus.
(b) Clytemnestra.
(c) Iphegenia.
(d) Agamemnon.
3. Who says our daily food is a small matter in Electra?
(a) Orestes.
(b) Iphegenia.
(c) Clytemnestra.
(d) The farmer.
4. Who says to the dead Aegisthus that his marriage was godless and filled with evil?
(a) Orestes.
(b) The farmer.
(c) Electra.
(d) Clytemnestra.
5. Who makes up the chorus in Electra?
(a) Trojan women.
(b) Thebian peasant women.
(c) Argive peasant women.
(d) Phoenician women.
Short Answer Questions
1. What has Orestes returned to do in Electra?
2. What does the chorus inform Electra of in the beginning of Electra?
3. What is the scene set before in The Phoenician Women?
4. What kind of knife does Orestes ask for to butcher the animal?
5. The old servant tells Orestes he must kill Aegisthus, but not where?
Short Essay Questions
1. The end of the Electra reveals the author's (and likely the society's) point of view. What is it?
2. Who are the Phoenician Women? What are their feelings in the play?
3. What is the central conflict in The Phoenician Women?
4. How are the deaths in the end of Electra received by the characters?
5. Who brings Electra food for their guests? What does he bring? What is his connection to Orestes?
6. How does Electra compare her situation to her mother's in part one of Electra, when speaking to the messenger (Orestes)?
7. What happened to Agamemnon? What does the exposition tell us happened with Orestes and Electra?
8. What does the farmer chide Electra for as she speaks to Orestes in Part Two of Electra?
9. What is Electra doing when she first enters the play? What does her farmer chide her for?
10. Describe briefly the theme of fate in The Phoenician Women.
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