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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the Chorus begins speaking in the opening of Part 2, what type of sea do they describe?
(a) A raging sea.
(b) A cold sea.
(c) A blue sea.
(d) An unfriendly sea.

2. How are Apollo and Artemis related?
(a) Artemis is Apollo's aunt.
(b) Artemis is Apollo's grandmother.
(c) Artemis is Apollo's mother.
(d) Artemis is Apollo's sister.

3. In Part 2, when Iphigenia is done speaking to the Chorus, where does she go?
(a) To her bedroom.
(b) To the field with the cattle.
(c) To the seashore.
(d) Inside the temple.

4. What does Orestes suggest that he and Pylades do, to which Pylades replies, "out of the question- we're not used to it"?
(a) Hide.
(b) Run away.
(c) Kill someone.
(d) Steal some horses.

5. Iphigenia promises Pylades and Orestes in Part 4 that she will send Pylades safely beyond what?
(a) The Purple Rocks.
(b) The Golden horizon.
(c) The Green Hills.
(d) The Orange sun waves.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Iphigenia tell the Chorus she was sent in a chariot of state to?

2. What happens to the person that Iphigenia sees in her dream?

3. When Orestes speaks to Iphigenia about being sacrificed and what will happen, Iphigenia offers to heap what at Orestes' grave?

4. When Iphigenia is telling the Chorus about her terrible past, she mentions that she would not hold who?

5. In Part 3, when Iphigenia suggests that Orestes deliver a letter to Argos, what does Orestes suggest they change about Iphigenia's plan?

(see the answer key)

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