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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What comes to Clytemnestra in Chapter 5?
(a) Animals and breezes.
(b) Thoughts of people.
(c) Outlines and voices.
(d) Faints wisps of consciousness.

2. In Chapter 4, where are Mitros and Theodotus being held?
(a) Underground in the gardens.
(b) Dungeon.
(c) Fortress where the boys were held.
(d) A village by the sea.

3. What does Electra tell Orestes when he asks the size of their army in Chapter 6?
(a) They have about 150 men.
(b) They have about 100 men.
(c) They have no army.
(d) They have about 50 men.

4. In Chapter 6, what does Orestes remember that his sister was doing when he returned from murdering their mother?
(a) Caring for Ianthe.
(b) Berating the servants.
(c) Shouting in the corridor.
(d) Fixing food.

5. In Chapter 6, what time of day does Leander come to the palace with his army?
(a) Dusk.
(b) Midnight.
(c) In the night.
(d) Dawn.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 4, as the boys are in soft hills, what does Leander catch in a trap?

2. On page 241, what is guiding Clytemnestra?

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

4. In Chapter 5, what does Clytemnestra think might be the reason that she wanders in the spaces?

5. What is Orestes' mother wearing when he sees her in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 4, after Orestes challenges Aegisthus, what does Electra tell him?

2. What does the narrator say at the end of Chapter 6 about time?

3. How does Orestes kill his mother?

4. How is Leander welcomed when he arrives at his family's home in Chapter 4?

5. In Chapter 5, what does Clytemnestra see about her mother?

6. In Chapter 4, what does Electra say about the gods?

7. At the beginning of Chapter 5, what does Clytemnestra say about her condition now and in the future?

8. What do Leander and the elders decide to do with Aegisthus and why?

9. Why does Orestes believe that he is singled out for solitude after Leander returns in Chapter 6?

10. As Clytemnestra walks in the corridors of the palace, what image does she see?

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