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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the Chorus begins speaking in the opening of Part 2, what type of rocks do they speak of?
(a) Jagged rocks.
(b) Purple rocks.
(c) Clashing rocks.
(d) Smooth rocks.

2. While Iphigenia is speaking to the Chorus, she mentions that she is without what four things?
(a) Country, child, farm, and fortune.
(b) Husband, child, city, and friend.
(c) Friend, ship, family, and country.
(d) Brother, friend, country, and horse.

3. In Part 3, what does Iphigenia suggest will happen to Orestes' friend, Pylades, if she sets Orestes free to deliver a letter to Argos?
(a) She will hide him and then help him escape.
(b) She will still sacrifice Pylades.
(c) She will set him free.
(d) She will marry him.

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

5. What does Orestes suggest that he and Pylades do, to which Pylades replies, "out of the question- we're not used to it"?
(a) Steal some horses.
(b) Hide.
(c) Kill someone.
(d) Run away.

Short Answer Questions

1. While Iphigenia is questioning Orestes in Part 3, Orestes tells Iphigenia that her "informant was correct" about something. What is it?

2. Who is Iphigenia's father?

3. What is Orestes asked to take from the temple by Phoebus Apollo?

4. In Part 3 of Iphigenia in Taurus, Iphigenia offers to spare Orestes' life if he will do what?

5. At the beginning of Part 3 of Iphigenia in Taurus, what does Iphigenia order the guards to untie?

(see the answer key)

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