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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Iphigenia's father?

2. Where does Iphigenia tell the Chorus she was sent in a chariot of state to?

3. What is the name of the priest that Iphigenia questions Orestes about in Part 3?

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

5. When the Chorus sees the two young men being led to the temple, who do they speak a brief prayer to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the ways that Orestes and Pylades contemplate entering the temple?

2. In the opening of Part 1 of Iphigenia in Taurus, what does Iphigenia first begin telling us?

3. Describe the dream that Iphigenia has.

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

5. In Part 5, why does King Thoas agree to not question why Iphigenia will take so long with the purification process?

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

7. In Part 4 of Iphigenia in Taurus, how does Iphigenia remember Orestes at the time she was taken away to be sacrificed?

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

9. In Part 3, after the guards have entered the temple and Iphigenia is alone with the two young strangers, what does she begin asking them about?

10. Who gave birth to Artemis and Apollo and what did she do after their birth?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the play, Iphigenia in Taurus, the theme of betrayal is evident when we learn of Iphigenia's father, Agamemnon, betraying his own daughter. How does Agamemnon betray others that he loves during this time? Do you think Agamemnon felt sorry for what happened to his daughter? Later on, Agamemnon is betrayed. By who? Do you think Euripides used the betrayal of Iphigenia by her father as a kind of foreshadowing of another betrayal yet to come? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Throughout the story of Iphigenia in Taurus there is a theme of family. We can see Iphigenia's love for her family through her sorrow, pain, and joy. What moments in the story bring Iphigenia sorrow, pain, and misery concerning her family? What parts in the story bring Iphigenia joy concerning her family? Use specific examples from the story to support your answers. Why do you think family is so important to Iphigenia? Do you think the love of her family has grown more because of her absence? Why or why not.

Essay Topic 3

In Part 2 of Iphigenia in Taurus, Iphigenia comments on how humanity uses the gods for an excuse. What excuse does she say the gods are used for? The answer to this question is revolutionary to Greek plays because it actually gives the humans blame for being savages and not saying that it was a god's demand. Why do you think this was a revolutionary idea? Has does this same idea exist today? What type of things happen in the play that are examples of this revolutionary idea? Cite specific examples from the play to support your ideas.

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