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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. While Iphigenia is questioning Orestes in Part 3, Orestes tells Iphigenia that her "informant was correct" about something. What is it?
(a) That Helen was evil.
(b) That Troy no longer stands and was destroyed in war.
(c) That Achilles was betrothed to someone else.
(d) That Agememnon is king.

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

5. In the Chorus' opening prayer to Artemis, what do they speak about that "crop the green meadows"?
(a) Sheep of Hellas.
(b) Pigs of Hellas.
(c) Servants of Hellas.
(d) Horses of Hellas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Orestes asked to take from the temple by Phoebus Apollo?

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

3. What does Iphigenia actually do inside the temple?

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

5. What happens to the person that Iphigenia sees in her dream?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Iphigenia tell King Thoas the young strangers need to be cleansed?

2. What happened to the messenger and guards when they tried to hold fast to Iphigenia and prevent Orestes from taking her onto his ship?

3. When Iphigenia is speaking to Orestes about her plan to send a letter back with either Pylades or himself, why does she tell Orestes that she feels like he must surely be from royal stock?

4. How does the herdsman tell Iphigenia that he captured the two young strangers?

5. At the end of Part 5 of Iphigenia in Taurus, who follows with the procession and how they go into the temple? Why did those that went into the temple go back into the temple?

6. What question does Iphigenia ask Orestes in Part 3 that she longs to ask him?

7. When the ship that Orestes, Pylades, and Iphigenia are escaping on begins to be pushed backwards towards land, what do the crew and Iphigenia start to do?

8. When the messenger enters the scene in Part 6 of Iphigenia in Taurus, he ignores the Chorus and eagerly seeks out King Thoas. Why does he do this?

9. Iphigenia talks to the Chorus about her ill fate and how she has had it from the beginning of her existence. She tells the Chorus that she cannot join in the "Argive Hymn to Hera" but that she celebrates rites "unfit for song". What rites is she speaking of and why are they unfit for song?

10. Describe the conversation that Orestes and Iphigenia have concerning Odysseus during Part 3 of Iphigenia in Taurus.

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