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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part 2, after Iphigenia leaves, the Chorus begins a long questioning of who the strangers are. Who does the Chorus say they wish would come to "this shore" to be sacrificed?
(a) Apollo.
(b) Helen.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Electra.

2. What happens to the person that Iphigenia sees in her dream?
(a) He fights a Cyclops.
(b) He sails on forever on his ship.
(c) He prays to Artemis.
(d) He dies.

3. Whose temple was Iphigenia to work in?
(a) Artemis'.
(b) Hippodamia's.
(c) Athena's.
(d) Helen's.

4. What does Orestes see that is stained with Hellene's blood?
(a) The swords on the ground.
(b) The image in the temple.
(c) The rocks in the field of cattle.
(d) The altar.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Part 2, when Iphigenia speaks to the Chorus about her terrible past, whose lips does she say she would not kiss?

3. Which character from the story enters first in Part 1?

4. The Herdsman hears one of the young men's names. Who is the young man that he knows the name of?

5. In Part 1 of Iphigenia in Taurus, Orestes states that people claim that something fell from the sky into the temple. What was this item that fell from the sky?

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