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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part 5, why does King Thoas have a "strong desire" to learn about the young men?
(a) Because he recognizes them.
(b) Because he always wants to know who is being sacrificed at all times.
(c) Because Iphigenia tells him they are foul with kindred blood.
(d) Because they are strange to him.

2. When Iphigenia enters the scene in Part 5, what is she carrying?
(a) Her letter.
(b) A sword.
(c) The cords that bind the strangers.
(d) The image of Artemis.

3. When Iphigenia is telling King Thoas what must be done for purification of the sacrifices, he tells her that what two things are very proper?
(a) Her love and purity.
(b) Her care and piety.
(c) Her loyalty and concern.
(d) Her carefulness and swiftness.

4. In Part 6 of Iphigenia of Taurus, when Thoas asks the messenger how it is possible that Iphigenia is gone and why she is gone, what does the messenger tell him?
(a) That Iphigenia is gone because she wanted to live in Athens.
(b) That Iphigenia is still hiding amongst the caves.
(c) That Iphigenia is gone because she was kidnapped by Orestes and Pylades.
(d) That Iphigenia is gone because she wanted to save Orestes.

5. In Part 5, what does Iphigenia tell King Thoas washes "clean all the foulness of mankind"?
(a) Her own tears.
(b) The holy water in the temple.
(c) Fire from the holy temple.
(d) The sea.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Mount did the mother of Artemis and Apollo bring them to?

2. When the ship that Orestes, Pylades, and Iphigenia have escaped to begins to be driven backward towards the land, what does Iphigenia start to do?

3. In the beginning of Part 6, what does the Chorus state that Artemis is the queen of?

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

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

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