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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the plans to honor Dinos when he arrives at the palace in Chapter 3?
(a) Many gifts and a feast.
(b) A bride and a feast.
(c) A play and a feast.
(d) A spectacle in the streets and then a feast.

2. In Chapter 2, how many guards lead Orestes away from the palace?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

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

4. In Chapter 2, how often are the boys allowed to use the baths?
(a) Once a month.
(b) Once a week.
(c) Twice a week.
(d) Every other week.

5. When the man with the goats sends the boys away in Chapter 2, how long does he say that his dogs will follow them?
(a) 2 miles.
(b) A mile.
(c) 1/3 of a mile.
(d) 1/2 a mile.

6. What inspires Agamemnon in Chapter 1 when he comes home?
(a) A good dinner.
(b) Bath.
(c) Good wine.
(d) His wife.

7. In Chapter 2 when the boys are at the house of the man with goats, how close is the next nearest house?
(a) A day's walk.
(b) 3 day's walk.
(c) A half a day's walk.
(d) 2 day's walk.

8. In Chapter 1, how long had Agamemnon been gone?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 3 years.
(d) 4 years.

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

10. In Chapter 3, who sends a message and asks Electra to go to his house?
(a) Mitros.
(b) Achilles.
(c) Cobon.
(d) Theodotus.

11. In Chapter 1, how many men did Aegisthus have that were loyal to him?
(a) 500.
(b) 600.
(c) 450.
(d) 750.

12. At the end of Chapter 1, who does Clytemnestra see at the end of her bed watching her?
(a) Electra.
(b) Young girl.
(c) Orestes.
(d) Old woman.

13. In Chapter 3, how many boys besides Orestes are not returned?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

14. In Chapter 2, what swoops down on the boys as they walk to the old woman's house?
(a) Vultures.
(b) Bats.
(c) Crows.
(d) Hawks.

15. In Chapter 3, where does Electra say that two of Aegisthus' friends took her on the day her father returned from war?
(a) Her room.
(b) The courtyard.
(c) Dungeons.
(d) Iphigenia's room.

Short Answer Questions

1. After men are sent to find Orestes in Chapter 3, how does Electra think her mother spends the rest of the day?

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

3. After Clytemnestra will not see Theodotus and Mitros in Chapter 3, how many men do they gather to stand with them?

4. How does Clytemnestra know when Agamemnon is coming home?

5. In Chapter 3, how many men are sent to find Orestes and the other boys?

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