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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. Who is Agamemnon's son?

2. Who says our daily food is a small matter in Electra?

3. Who does Aegisthus beg to protect him and destroy his enemies?

4. By what is Orestes recognized?

5. Who is Electra married to?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Electra react to the strangers coming into her home?

2. Who recognizes Orestes?

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

4. How is Antigone's entrance in The Phoenician Women used as an aid to the audience?

5. Why and with whom has Orestes returned to Argos? Where do we first find him in the play Electra?

6. What led to Oedipus' downfall?

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

8. How does Clytemnestra's fate show how punishment for women is different than for men?

9. Who are the Phoenician Women? What are their feelings in the play?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

How are the violent scenes and battles created in the plays of Euripides? Describe the staging of the three plays studied from the collection and the battles or murders which take place in each.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the theme of "Fate" in The Phoenician Women. How does this theme attribute to the actions of Polyneices and Eteocles? To Oedipus? To Antigone?

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