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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 is revealed with Orestes in the fourth part of "The Libation Bearers"?
(a) Electra's body.
(b) His father's armor.
(c) Aegisthus's body.
(d) Cilissa's body.

2. What does Agamemnon think about this particular welcome home?
(a) He wants his concubine to be impressed.
(b) He is very happy with it.
(c) He does not want his people to think worse of him for being surrounded by indulgence.
(d) He does not want his people to think poorly of him for not having a grand entrance.

3. According to Clytemnestra, what did she watch for while Agamemnon was gone?
(a) She watched for any sign from the gods.
(b) She kept watch for any word of her husband.
(c) She watched the moon to see if the gods would tell her anything through it.
(d) She watched the horizon every day for his ship.

4. Whom does Agamemnon tell Clytemnestra to greet and treat well?
(a) Briseis.
(b) Andromache.
(c) Hecuba.
(d) Cassandra.

5. Whom did Clytemnestra send into exile?
(a) Iphigenia.
(b) Hecuba.
(c) Electra.
(d) Orestes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the women describe Clytemnestra in their first appearance in "The Libation Bearers"?

2. When does the second play take place?

3. How does Agamemnon agree to walk on the carpet?

4. What is the lineage of the woman with Agamemnon in the third part of the first play?

5. What does Electra find on her father's tomb?

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