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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Play 1, Part 4 (p.140150).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the signal that the man on the roof sees mean?
(a) Agamemnon has died.
(b) King Priam is invading.
(c) Menelaus is coming home from the Trojan War.
(d) Agamemnon is coming home from the Trojan War.

2. What does Cassandra remove from her person in the fourth part of the first play?
(a) Her long hair.
(b) The crest of her family.
(c) The chains Agamemnon put around her.
(d) Her royal jewelry.

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

4. For what does Clytemnestra scold the chorus in the second part of the first play?
(a) Not listening to the herald.
(b) Not believing her.
(c) Not offering proper prayers to the gods.
(d) Not respecting Agamemnon.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the herald ask of the gods?

2. According to the chorus, what was Paris's crime?

3. In her first appearance, Clytemnestra claims the chorus does not believe her. On what grounds does she base this claim?

4. Whom does Agamemnon tell Clytemnestra to greet and treat well?

5. According to the herald and the chorus, what has happened to Agamemnon's brother?

(see the answer key)

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