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

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

3. The Herdsman hears one of the young men's names. Who is the young man that he knows the name of?
(a) Apollo.
(b) Orestes.
(c) Pylades.
(d) Achilles.

4. When Iphigenia is talking with Orestes and Pylades, who says, "events mislead and baffle us"?
(a) The Chorus.
(b) Iphigenia.
(c) Pylades.
(d) Orestes.

5. When Orestes and Iphigenia are discussing Hellas, Orestes tells Iphigenia that a particular person's end was terrible. Who is Orestes talking about?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Electra.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Menelaus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which end of the Crimean Peninsula does the opening scene take place?

2. 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?

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

4. When Iphigenia is having the conversation with Orestes and Pylades outside the temple, she asks Orestes where Helen is. What does Orestes tell Iphigenia?

5. The opening scene in the story Iphigenia in Taurus starts at what landmark?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part 2, what does Iphigenia say was happening while her father was bringing her to her death?

2. In Part 5 of Iphigenia in Taurus, Iphigenia asks that two different things happen that involve cloaks. What are those two things?

3. Why does Orestes claim he is an outcast?

4. What plan does Iphigenia devise to make sure her message gets to its destination if the letter is lost or taken?

5. In Part 1, what does Iphigenia claim her father vowed to Artemis?

6. When the messenger and guards had sat waiting for Iphigenia to perform the purification process in Part 6, they finally became worried about what was taking so long. What did they think could have happened to Iphigenia?

7. When Iphigenia first finds out that Orestes and Pylades are from her homeland, what plan does she come up with?

8. What do Orestes and Pylades finally decide to do after they have spoken of how to get into the temple?

9. When Iphigenia enters the scene in Part 5 of Iphigenia in Taurus, what reaction does the king have and why?

10. In Part 6 of Iphigenia in Taurus, why does the messenger not leave when the Chorus tells him that the King is not there at the temple?

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