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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On page 243, what would it take for the guards to be able to see or sense Clytemnestra?
(a) The sound of her voice.
(b) The feeling of her passing.
(c) A sound or gesture.
(d) A gliding movement.

2. In Chapter 6, what does Leander tell Orestes that the guards hear in the corridor at night?
(a) The wind.
(b) Whispering.
(c) A voice.
(d) Singing.

3. On page 242, what can the guards feel when Clytemnestra comes from the garden?
(a) A movement.
(b) A disturbance.
(c) A breeze.
(d) A whisper.

4. In Chapter 6, who does Orestes tell Ianthe moves in the palace corridors at night?
(a) His father.
(b) Theodotus.
(c) His mother.
(d) Iphigenia.

5. In Chapter 5, what replaces truth and knowledge?
(a) Being perplexed and bewildered.
(b) Being unstable and unanchored.
(c) Being lost and scared.
(d) Being unmoored and lost.

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

7. On page 241, what is the first word that occurs to Clytemnestra?
(a) Dream.
(b) Sword.
(c) Nightmare.
(d) Home.

8. On page 242, what breaks the silence at night?
(a) Wind and rain.
(b) Dogs and cats.
(c) Guards and lizards.
(d) Guards and cats.

9. At the beginning of Chapter 4, how many abandoned or destroyed homes do Orestes and Leander find?
(a) 2-3.
(b) Every house they see.
(c) Every other house they see.
(d) 4-5.

10. In Chapter 6, where does Electra spend the days with Leander?
(a) In the largest room in the palace.
(b) In the courtyard.
(c) In the great hall.
(d) In his mother's rooms.

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

12. On page 241, what is guiding Clytemnestra?
(a) A spirit.
(b) Iphigenia.
(c) Shadowy stability.
(d) Her husband.

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

14. On page 242, who does Clytemnestra realize she is looking for?
(a) Electra.
(b) Orestes.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Iphigenia.

15. At the beginning of Chapter 6, who is killed?
(a) Dinos.
(b) Aegisthus.
(c) Leander.
(d) Theodotus.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 4, who is the only person alive in Leander's house after Orestes helps rescue Mitros and Theodotus?

2. In Chapter 6 after Leander returns, where does Ianthe spend her days?

3. What does a guard want to know at the end of Chapter 5 when he speaks to Clytemnestra?

4. Where are Mitros and Theodotus taken in Chapter 4?

5. What image comes to Clytemnestra on page 241?

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