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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 - Electra.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 1, how old was Iphigenia when she went to her father thinking she would be married?
(a) 15.
(b) 17.
(c) 16.
(d) 18.

2. In Chapter 1, what would people be to the gods?
(a) Bees.
(b) Sound of wind in the trees.
(c) Sound of running water.
(d) Ants.

3. After men are sent to find Orestes in Chapter 3, how does Electra think her mother spends the rest of the day?
(a) Bathing.
(b) Walking in the garden.
(c) Writing letters.
(d) Trying on dresses.

4. In Chapter 1, who told Clytemnestra that Iphigenia is to be sacrificed?
(a) A cook.
(b) Achilles.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) A serving woman.

5. In Chapter 3, what does Electra remember hearing at nightfall when she and her sister would meet in a deserted place?
(a) Howls of wolves.
(b) Birdsong.
(c) Shrieks of hawks.
(d) Calls of owls.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, when the boys are set upon by dogs after leaving the man with goats, where does a dog grab Leander?

2. In what direction do Leander, Mithros, and Orestes travel when they escape?

3. In Chapter 2, how many children do a man and a woman have when Orestes and the guards find them and take water?

4. What did the soldiers want to do to Achilles in Chapter 1, when he asked that Iphigenia not be killed?

5. In Chapter 2, what swoops down on the boys as they walk to the old woman's house?

(see the answer key)

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