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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The opening scene in the story Iphigenia in Taurus starts at what landmark?
(a) Iphigenia's room.
(b) The temple of Artemis.
(c) Orestes' ship.
(d) Taurus castle.

3. Why does Iphigenia feel like the rites she celebrates are unfit for song?
(a) Because she "sings a song of death".
(b) Because she "lures men in only to kill them".
(c) Because she helps "sail men's body to sea".
(d) Because she helps "drench an altar with blood of travelers".

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

5. Iphigenia tells the Chorus that she is the doomed victim of what?
(a) Her father's villainy.
(b) Achilles' love.
(c) Helen's treachery.
(d) Fate.

6. 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 does not live.
(b) That he lives in the afterlife and here on earth.
(c) That the king's son lives nowhere and everywhere.
(d) That he has visited the Gods and lives nowhere.

7. In Part 3, when Iphigenia tells Orestes that he is the visitor she has longed for, what does Orestes tell Iphigenia to hug?
(a) Pylades.
(b) Herself.
(c) Her good luck.
(d) Her sword.

8. Who does the Chorus mention led the famous fleet to the towers of Troy?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Helen.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Menelaus.

9. Who enters from the central door while the Chorus is praying to Artemis?
(a) Guards.
(b) Iphigenia.
(c) Thoas.
(d) Temple attendants.

10. After Orestes finds the item he is searching for in Taurus, what is he required to do with it?
(a) Throw it into the sea.
(b) Break it.
(c) Take it back and give it to Athens.
(d) Give it to Apollo.

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

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

13. What is Orestes asked to take from the temple by Phoebus Apollo?
(a) The statue of Artemis.
(b) A dead corpse.
(c) A shield from Apollo.
(d) King Thoas' armor.

14. Who does Iphigenia order to go into the temple and prepare for the sacrifice?
(a) The guards.
(b) Temple attendants.
(c) The Chorus.
(d) King Thoas.

15. What is the name of the priest that Iphigenia questions Orestes about in Part 3?
(a) Orestes.
(b) Calchas.
(c) Pylades.
(d) Menelaus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the king of the Taurian country?

2. While Iphigenia is speaking to the Chorus, she mentions that she is without what four things?

3. When the Herdsman is telling Iphigenia about the capture of the strangers, he tells her that one of the strangers drew his sword. What did the stranger do with his sword?

4. In Part 2 of Iphigenia in Taurus, Iphigenia tells the Chorus that she finds Artemis guilty of what?

5. In Part 2, after Iphigenia leaves, the Chorus begins a long questioning of who the strangers are. Who does the Chorus say they wish would come to "this shore" to be sacrificed?

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