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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Play 2, Part 4 (9.190-196).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Electra find on her father's tomb?
(a) A lock of Orestes' hair.
(b) Orestes' sword.
(c) A book of verse.
(d) Letters she wrote to her brother.

2. For what does the leader of the chorus praise Agamemnon upon his return?
(a) Victory with Troy.
(b) His continued fealty to his people.
(c) His continued piety to the gods.
(d) His captive, Cassandra.

3. How does Clytemnestra plead for her life to Orestes?
(a) She reminds him that Electra will be motherless.
(b) She tells him Iphigenia pleaded for her life before being sacrificed.
(c) She reminds Orestes that she is his mother.
(d) She tells Orestes she was ordered by Zeus to kill Agamemnon.

4. While mourning her father at his grave, what does Electra pray for the most?
(a) The death of Aegisthus.
(b) Her mother's forgiveness.
(c) Her brother's return.
(d) Menelaus's vengeance on Cltemnestra.

5. What does Orestes wonder about the women approaching his father's tomb?
(a) He wonders if they are there to mourn his father or a new tragedy.
(b) He wonders if they are there to move his father's body to safety.
(c) He wonders if they are there to celebrate his father's life.
(d) He wonders if they are there to desecrate the tomb.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Orestes see when he cries out in terror after he has avenged his father's murder?

2. What question does Orestes ask Pylades while confronted by his mother?

3. What does Pylades advise Orestes to do?

4. What does Clytemnestra claim about her life since Agamemnon left for war?

5. What feelings suddenly strike the chorus after Agamemnon enters his palace?

(see the answer key)

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