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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. At the beginning of Chapter 5, what lingers most for Clytemnestra?
(a) Her actions in the past.
(b) Her deceased husband and daughter.
(c) Her memories.
(d) Traces of people.

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

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

4. In Chapter 4, what time of day does Clytemnestra want Orestes to leave and meet Dinos?
(a) First light.
(b) Midnight.
(c) Dawn.
(d) Mid-day.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 6, what is decided to be done with the slaves Agamemnon captured so long ago?

2. On page 242, who does Clytemnestra realize she is looking for?

3. In Chapter 6, what are the slaves doing that Agamemnon captured so long ago?

4. In Chapter 4, what does Aegisthus do when Clytemnestra asks him if they had any control when Orestes was taken away?

5. In Chapter 5, how does Clytemnestra think that she will fade?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter 4, what is strange as Orestes and Leander's walk away from the house of the man who herded goats?

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

5. What does Orestes realize about the boys who were in the detention place with him in Chapter 6?

6. In Chapter 6, how does Electra respond after Orestes kills their mother?

7. In Chapter 4, what does Leander catch in a trap and why is it difficult to eat?

8. In Chapter 4 when Orestes returns to the palace, what does his mother tell him about Theodotus?

9. On page 240, how does Clytemnestra describe the place where she is?

10. How does Electra change with Leander's return?

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