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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 3, where does Electra get new clothes?

3. In Chapter 1, how long had Agamemnon been gone?

4. In Chapter 2 when water is found in a house with a man and a woman, how much is Orestes given?

5. In Chapter 1, where does the old and difficult woman with powers live?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Clytenmestra when Iphigenia was sacrificed?

2. In Chapter 2, what is the first rule that Leander creates and how does he intend for the boys to protect themselves?

3. In Chapter 3, when Electra says that she is afraid of Aegisthus, how does she describe him?

4. Toward the end of Chapter 3, what does Electra realize might free her and how does she try to gain freedom?

5. How do the boys get the old woman to allow them to stay with her?

6. What does Electra realize about herself and her future in Chapter 3?

7. What happened to the people who lived with the old woman?

8. How did Agamemnon get Clytemnestra and Iphigenia to come to him?

9. What does Electra come to realize about the relationship between her mother and Aegisthus and why they stay together?

10. What happened when Clytenmestra had Aegisthus released from the dungeon?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Dawn is breaking as Ianthe is getting ready to have her baby. What does the dawn symbolize? How will time change and the things that haunt characters disappear? Why will it not matter who is born or who dies?

Essay Topic 2

There are several dichotomies in the novel. How are the dichotomies of light/shadow, memory/forgetfulness, motion/stillness, and speech/silence related to major themes in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Clytemnestra determines to revenge her daughter’s murder. Why does Clytemnestra determine to revenge Iphigenia’s death? What do her actions reveal about vengeance and the consequences of vengeance?

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