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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. By what is Orestes recognized?

3. How did Orestes attain the mark the servant speaks of?

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

5. What is the scene set before in The Phoenician Women?

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. What does Orestes say of Electra's husband (as he pretends to be the messenger)?

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

4. What does the farmer chide Electra for as she speaks to Orestes in Part Two of Electra?

5. What does Orestes ask of the old man at the cottage?

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

7. Why do the brothers in The Phoenician Women fight against fate?

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

9. Who brings Electra food for their guests? What does he bring? What is his connection to Orestes?

10. What does Electra do when she first sees Orestes?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the plot line of the play, Electra. What actions are taken to create the "Rising Action," "Climax," "Falling Action," and "Resolution"?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the details of the exposition in Electra from the opening speeches.

Essay Topic 3

Describe the following characters from the Bacchae and their actions: Pentheus, Agave, Cadmus, Teiresius, and Coryphaeus.

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