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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When the Herdsman first enters and tells Iphigenia about the visitors, where does he tell Iphigenia the men are from?
(a) The purple east.
(b) Athens.
(c) Hellas.
(d) Troy.

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

5. What takes Iphigenia's place on the altar to be sacrificed instead?
(a) A deer.
(b) A lamb.
(c) A pig.
(d) A horse.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Achilles' father?

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

3. Iphigenia claims that even from the time of her conception and childhood that something "lay hard" for her. What is it?

4. When the Chorus begins speaking in the opening of Part 2, what type of rocks do they speak of?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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