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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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 set him free.
(b) She will hide him and then help him escape.
(c) She will marry him.
(d) She will still sacrifice Pylades.

4. Who does the Herdsman consider a suitable victim and pleasing sacrifice for Artemis?
(a) No one; he does not agree with sacrificing.
(b) The two young men that came by ship.
(c) Iphigenia herself.
(d) A member of his own herdsman.

5. When Iphigenia is talking with Orestes and Pylades, who says, "events mislead and baffle us"?
(a) Pylades.
(b) Iphigenia.
(c) The Chorus.
(d) Orestes.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 3 of Iphigenia in Taurus, who is Orestes speaking of when he says, " her blood was the unjust ransom for a worthless wife"?

2. When Iphigenia arrived in Taurus, what was her appointed job in the temple?

3. What does Orestes call Iphigenia throughout Part 3?

4. Whose temple was Iphigenia to work in?

5. When Iphigenia is speaking to the Chorus, who does she claim is extinct?

(see the answer key)

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