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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 is the function of the herald at the beginning of the second part of the first play?
(a) He brings news of Aegisthus.
(b) He brings news of Orestes.
(c) He brings news of Agamemnon.
(d) He brings news of Iphigenia.

2. Why does Cassandra walk into the palace?
(a) She has nothing else to do.
(b) She hears Clytemnestra calling for help.
(c) She refuses to run from her fate.
(d) She hears Agamemnon calling for her.

3. About whom does the chorus ask the herald for news?
(a) Paris.
(b) Hector.
(c) Chryseis.
(d) Menelaus.

4. What message does Clytemnestra send to Agamemnon through the herald?
(a) She wants to take him to Apollo's temple for blessings.
(b) She does not wish to see him.
(c) She has been loyal and faithful.
(d) She is pregnant with his child.

5. What city does Clytemnestra describe as being ruined, burned, and full of mourning for the dead?
(a) Mycenae.
(b) Troy.
(c) Delphi.
(d) Athens.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. According to Agamemnon, what was the cause of Troy's being "ground into dust?"

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

5. To whom does Cassandra initially cry out?

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