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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Iphigenia is speaking to the Chorus, who does she claim is extinct?
(a) Her love.
(b) Her family.
(c) Her friends.
(d) Her sister.

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

3. After Iphigenia talks about her dream and exits, who appears from the shore?
(a) King Thoas.
(b) Orestes and Pylades.
(c) The Chorus.
(d) Helen.

4. Where does Iphigenia tell the Chorus she was sent in a chariot of state to?
(a) Helen.
(b) Taurus.
(c) Athens.
(d) Aulis.

5. When Orestes and Iphigenia are speaking of Orestes being sacrificed, Iphigenia tells Orestes that she will use what to quench his ashes?
(a) Olive oil.
(b) Rose water.
(c) Sea water.
(d) The juice of grapes.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Iphigenia is speaking to the Chorus in Part 2, where does she tell the Chorus she "yearns toward"?

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

3. In Part 3 of Iphigenia in Taurus, who says, "do we not know what sorrow is"?

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

5. Who does the Chorus mention led the famous fleet to the towers of Troy?

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