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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who enters from the central door while the Chorus is praying to Artemis?
(a) Iphigenia.
(b) Guards.
(c) Temple attendants.
(d) Thoas.

2. What does Iphigenia actually do inside the temple?
(a) She prepares the swords.
(b) She prays for all the citizens of Taurus.
(c) She prepares victims for sacrifice, but does not perform the actual sacrifice.
(d) She waxes the statue of Artemis.

3. What is the name of Iphigenia's grandmother on her mother's side?
(a) Hellena.
(b) Electra.
(c) Artemis.
(d) Leda.

4. Who is Achilles' father?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Orestes.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Thetis.

5. In Part 2, when Iphigenia speaks to the Chorus about her terrible past, whose lips does she say she would not kiss?
(a) Her brother's lips.
(b) Her sister's lips.
(c) Her father's lips.
(d) Her mother's lips.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are Apollo and Artemis related?

2. Iphigenia tells the Chorus that she is the doomed victim of what?

3. Who does Orestes claim "hounds" him "to and fro"?

4. What does Orestes see that is stained with Hellene's blood?

5. Who does Iphigenia think her dream is about in Part 1?

(see the answer key)

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