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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) He came after the herdsman.
(b) He started stabbing the cattle.
(c) He threw it out into the sea.
(d) He stabbed the ground.

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

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

5. Whose temple was Iphigenia to work in?
(a) Artemis'.
(b) Athena's.
(c) Helen's.
(d) Hippodamia's.

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

7. Iphigenia talks about the seizure of Helen in Part 1. Who is Helen's husband?
(a) Orestes.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Thoas.
(d) Menelaus.

8. Who snatched Iphigenia from the altar from which she was to be sacrificed?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Artemis.
(c) Orestes.
(d) Helen.

9. Who does Orestes claim "hounds" him "to and fro"?
(a) Artemis.
(b) Helen.
(c) Apollo.
(d) The Furies.

10. Who enters as Iphigenia is speaking to the Chorus?
(a) A herdsman.
(b) Orestes.
(c) Pylades.
(d) King Thoas.

11. In Part 3 of Iphigenia in Taurus, who says, "do we not know what sorrow is"?
(a) The Chorus.
(b) Orestes.
(c) Iphigenia.
(d) Pylades.

12. Who is Iphigenia's father?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Menelaus.
(c) Thoas.
(d) Apollo.

13. When Orestes cries to Phoebus, who does he claim he has killed?
(a) His brother-in-law.
(b) His mother.
(c) His sister.
(d) His father.

14. What happens to the person that Iphigenia sees in her dream?
(a) He dies.
(b) He fights a Cyclops.
(c) He prays to Artemis.
(d) He sails on forever on his ship.

15. When Iphigenia asks Orestes and Pylades if they are brothers in Part 3, what does Orestes say in reply?
(a) That they are twin brothers.
(b) That they are comrades.
(c) That they are brothers in love, but not blood.
(d) That they are just friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who enters from the central door while the Chorus is praying to Artemis?

2. Who is Achilles' father?

3. After Iphigenia talks about her dream and exits, who appears from the shore?

4. Iphigenia tells the Chorus that she is the doomed victim of what?

5. In Part 3 of Iphigenia in Taurus, what does Orestes claim is as chaotic as the mortal world?

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