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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What name does Orestes tell Iphigenia would name him justly when he is talking with her outside the temple?
(a) The Sad.
(b) The Unfortunate.
(c) The Willing.
(d) The Brave.

2. In Part 3, when Iphigenia suggests that Orestes deliver a letter to Argos, what does Orestes suggest they change about Iphigenia's plan?
(a) That no one will deliver the letter because he doesn't trust Iphigenia.
(b) That Pylades deliver the letter and Orestes stay to be sacrificed.
(c) That he and Pylades both deliver the letter.
(d) That they will send a member of the Chorus to deliver the letter and both men will face death.

3. When the messenger is describing the escape of the prisoners and Iphigenia, he tells the King that something was at Iphigenia's feet that made her shrink away. What was it that made Iphigenia shrink away?
(a) A serpent in the brush.
(b) An arrow from an archer had landed at her feet.
(c) The foam from the waves.
(d) The image of Artemis was on the ground before her.

4. When the Chorus is speaking in the beginning of Part 6, what is the second stanza of the poem called?
(a) Antistrophe.
(b) Iphigenia.
(c) Strophe.
(d) Orestes.

5. Besides the young strangers, what else does Iphigenia tell King Thoas she must purify?
(a) The king.
(b) Herself.
(c) Their ship.
(d) The image of Artemis.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Iphigenia enters the scene from the temple, where does she ask King Thoas to stand?

2. When Iphigenia is telling the King about the young strangers trying to win her heart, what does she claim that she hates?

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

4. What does Iphigenia tell King Thoas the strangers did to win her heart?

5. When the ship that Orestes, Pylades, and Iphigenia have escaped to begins to be driven backward towards the land, what does Iphigenia start to do?

(see the answer key)

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