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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Play 2, Part 2 (p 171-183).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Clytemnestra claim about her life since Agamemnon left for war?
(a) She claims that her life improved after he left.
(b) She claims to have been lonely without him.
(c) She claims to have been fine without him.
(d) She says that she remarried in his absence.

2. According to Agamemnon, what was the cause of Troy's being "ground into dust?"
(a) It was over a woman.
(b) It was the will of two kings.
(c) It was the will of the gods.
(d) It was because of a misunderstanding.

3. What does Electra find when she wonders aloud if her brother has returned?
(a) Pylades' pack.
(b) Offerings to the gods.
(c) Orestes and Pylades' footprints.
(d) A campfire.

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

5. What gift did Apollo give Cassandra before the events of The Oresteia?
(a) Prophecy.
(b) The ability of persuasion.
(c) Immortality.
(d) The ability to speak in tongues.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to the herald, is worth the suffering of the soldiers?

2. To what does the chorus compare life at the end of the third part of the first play?

3. Whom does Orestes wonder might be leading the crowd of women coming to Agamemnon's tomb?

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

5. What reasoning did Clytemnestra give for exiling a certain person before the events of "The Agamemnon"?

(see the answer key)

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