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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Orestes see that is stained with Hellene's blood?
(a) The image in the temple.
(b) The altar.
(c) The swords on the ground.
(d) The rocks in the field of cattle.

2. In Part 2, when Iphigenia speaks to the Chorus about her terrible past, whose lips does she say she would not kiss?
(a) Her brother's lips.
(b) Her father's lips.
(c) Her sister's lips.
(d) Her mother's lips.

3. When Iphigenia asks Orestes about the king's son in Part 3 of Iphigenia in Taurus, and asks where he lives, what is Orestes' reply?
(a) That he has visited the Gods and lives nowhere.
(b) That he lives in the afterlife and here on earth.
(c) That he does not live.
(d) That the king's son lives nowhere and everywhere.

4. Who was Iphigenia betrothed to when she lived in Greece?
(a) Achilles.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Orestes.
(d) Thoas.

5. Where was the altar on which Iphigenia was going to be sacrificed?
(a) Troy.
(b) Hellas.
(c) Athens.
(d) Aulis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Achilles' father?

2. Who enters as Iphigenia is speaking to the Chorus?

3. What does Orestes call Iphigenia throughout Part 3?

4. Where does Iphigenia tell the Chorus she was sent in a chariot of state to?

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

(see the answer key)

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