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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which character from the story enters first in Part 1?
(a) Pylades.
(b) Thoas.
(c) Iphigenia.
(d) Orestes.

2. When Iphigenia arrived in Taurus, what was her appointed job in the temple?
(a) Priestess.
(b) Servant.
(c) Guard.
(d) Attendant.

3. Who is the king of the Taurian country?
(a) Menelaus.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Orestes.
(d) Thoas.

4. Which end of the Crimean Peninsula does the opening scene take place?
(a) Eastern.
(b) Southern.
(c) Northern.
(d) Western.

5. Who is Iphigenia's father?
(a) Apollo.
(b) Thoas.
(c) Menelaus.
(d) Agamemnon.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are Apollo and Artemis related?

2. Why did the king of Taurus receive his particular name?

3. Where was the altar on which Iphigenia was going to be sacrificed?

4. 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?

5. The opening scene in the story Iphigenia in Taurus starts at what landmark?

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