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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part 6, the Chorus mentions a dragon in the hymn they sing. What color eyes do they mention the dragon has?
(a) Emerald-green.
(b) Sea foam-white.
(c) Wine-red.
(d) Ocean-blue.

2. When Orestes and Iphigenia are devising a plan to escape Taurus, what does Orestes suggest they do to the king?
(a) Kidnap him.
(b) Assassinate him.
(c) Sneak past him.
(d) Overthrow him.

3. In Part 4 of Iphigenia in Taurus, Orestes is telling Pylades that he must leave and go back home. Orestes tells Pylades that he must go home and perpetuate his name. How does Orestes tell Pylades to perpetuate his name?
(a) To build an image of him.
(b) To tell everyone about him.
(c) To proclaim his name and his mission to all the inhabitants of Hellas.
(d) To go home to his wife and bear children.

4. Who leads Orestes and Pylades out of the temple on their way to the purification ritual?
(a) Guards.
(b) King Thoas.
(c) Guards and temple attendants.
(d) The Chorus.

5. In Part 4 of Iphigenia in Taurus, who says, "sometimes, somehow, extraordinary misfortune seems to take, by pure chance, some extraordinary turn"?
(a) The Chorus.
(b) Pylades.
(c) Orestes.
(d) Iphigenia.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 5 of Iphigenia in Taurus, the first person to speak asks if something is blazing. What does this person inquire about?

2. When Iphigenia is speaking with King Thoas about the image moving, she tells him that something else happened as well as the movement. What else does Iphigenia say happened with the image?

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

4. Iphigenia tells King Thoas in Part 5 that the citizens must do what during the purification ritual?

5. What does Iphigenia tell King Thoas he must do when the men come from the temple?

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