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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 Laius in The Phoenician Women?
(a) Oedipus.
(b) Jocasta.
(c) Eteocles.
(d) Antigone.
2. What goddess will be celebrated in the beginning of Electra?
(a) Hera.
(b) Antigone.
(c) Semele.
(d) Artemis.
3. Who enters with Orestes in his first appearance in Electra?
(a) Pylades.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Aegisthus.
(d) Jocasta.
4. Clytemnestra claim's she only avenged whose death?
(a) Her husband's.
(b) Her son's.
(c) Her mother's.
(d) Her daughter's.
5. Who has called a truce to attempt to make peace in The Phoenician Women?
(a) Jocasta.
(b) Antigone.
(c) Polyneices.
(d) Oedipus.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who becomes Clytemnestra's lover?
2. Who does Electra explain to her guests the servant is?
3. In The Phoenician Women, who has been living in Argos and marries a woman there?
4. Who does Electra NOT want the body to be seen by?
5. What does Electra's husband say that it's improper for Electra to do?
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. How does Clytemnestra's fate show how punishment for women is different than for men?
3. Who brings Electra food for their guests? What does he bring? What is his connection to Orestes?
4. What is the irony of Electra's stance on woman's subservience?
5. What is Electra doing when she first enters the play? What does her farmer chide her for?
6. What does Orestes say of Electra's husband (as he pretends to be the messenger)?
7. What does the farmer chide Electra for as she speaks to Orestes in Part Two of Electra?
8. Why and with whom has Orestes returned to Argos? Where do we first find him in the play Electra?
9. How does Electra compare her situation to her mother's in part one of Electra, when speaking to the messenger (Orestes)?
10. How does Electra react to the strangers coming into her home?
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