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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 is Clytemnestra's final reaction to Cassandra?
(a) She grows angry and goes inside.
(b) She begs the princess to leave.
(c) She tries to help the princess down from the chariot.
(d) She begs the princess for forgiveness for her husband's actions.

2. What feelings suddenly strike the chorus after Agamemnon enters his palace?
(a) They have feelings of joy.
(b) They have feelings of sickness.
(c) They have feelings of hysteria.
(d) They have feelings of foreboding.

3. What do Orestes and Electra ask of their father's spirit?
(a) They ask for release.
(b) They ask for safe passage to the castle.
(c) They ask for forgiveness.
(d) They ask for strength and guidance.

4. What is the herald's opinion on Troy and Paris?
(a) They got what they deserved.
(b) Paris should have surrendered and the city left untouched.
(c) The city should have turned Paris over to the Greeks.
(d) It is a tragedy.

5. What confuses Orestes about Clytemnestra's orders for the tomb?
(a) He does not know why libations must be poured over it.
(b) He does not know why she is desecrating the tomb.
(c) He does not know why she does not perform the ritual herself.
(d) He does not know why she cares.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the chorus compare Troy after the herald exits?

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

3. Whom did Clytemnestra send into exile?

4. Why does Agamemnon walk inside his palace the way he does?

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

(see the answer key)

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