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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a guard want to know at the end of Chapter 5 when he speaks to Clytemnestra?
(a) Where she is going.
(b) Who she is.
(c) If she means to harm Orestes.
(d) Why she has come.

2. How does Clytemnestra describe the place where she is in Chapter 5?
(a) Dark and dreary.
(b) Blankness, strangeness, and silence.
(c) Shadowy and quiet.
(d) Like being underwater.

3. In Chapter 4, who accompanies Leander and Orestes for a ways when they leave the village of Leander's mother's family?
(a) 2 of Leander's uncles.
(b) 2 of Leander's cousins.
(c) 3 of Leander's uncles.
(d) 3 of Leander's cousins.

4. What metaphor does Clytemnestra use to describe the space she inhabits on page 241?
(a) Desert.
(b) Forest.
(c) Bright gift.
(d) Sad gift.

5. In Chapter 4, who does Ianthe say killed her family?
(a) Aegisthus.
(b) Guards from the palace.
(c) Other villagers.
(d) Clytemnestra's men.

6. In Chapter 6, what does Orestes sometimes remember in the night?
(a) Being with his father.
(b) Killing his mother.
(c) Sword fights with guards.
(d) Death of Iphigenia.

7. In Chapter 6, how many guards enter the palace with Leander?
(a) 10.
(b) 7.
(c) 9.
(d) 5.

8. In Chapter 5, what does Clytemnestra think might be the reason that she wanders in the spaces?
(a) Anger.
(b) Revenge.
(c) Love.
(d) Hate.

9. In Chapter 6, how many men does Ianthe say attacked her when her family was slaughtered?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 5.
(d) 7.

10. Where does Clytemnestra walk on page 241?
(a) Garden.
(b) Palace.
(c) Village.
(d) River.

11. In Chapter 6, what is done to Aegisthus?
(a) Back broken.
(b) Killed.
(c) Legs broken.
(d) Imprisoned.

12. In Chapter 6, when Orestes enters Electra's room one day, who does he see her speaking with at the window?
(a) One of the elders.
(b) Aegisthus.
(c) Leander.
(d) Guard.

13. What does Leander ask for when he sends a message in Chapter 6?
(a) Gold.
(b) Space for prisoners.
(c) The dungeons cleared.
(d) Surrender.

14. In Chapter 4, who does Clytemnestra tell Orestes killed his father?
(a) Cassandra.
(b) Theodotus.
(c) Mitros.
(d) Agamemnon's men.

15. What does Clytemnestra say to Orestes in Chapter 6?
(a) "Why?".
(b) "Where is everyone?".
(c) "Where?".
(d) "No one."

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 4, where are the rebels gaining strength?

2. On page 241, what is guiding Clytemnestra?

3. In Chapter 4 when Leander and Orestes come across a fast-flowing stream, how far does Leander think they are from a village where his mother's family is from?

4. How does Clytemnestra describe her awareness at the beginning of Chapter 5?

5. How many nights after planning how to free Mitros and Theodotus does Orestes go to rescue them?

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