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

2. What did Apollo expect in return for the gift he granted to Cassandra?
(a) Cassandra was to honor him publicly.
(b) Cassandra was to renounce all other gods.
(c) Cassandra was to build a shrine to him.
(d) Cassandra was to give herself to him.

3. How does Agamemnon agree to walk on the carpet?
(a) In his boots.
(b) Barefoot.
(c) Carrying his wife.
(d) On a horse.

4. What reasoning did Clytemnestra give for exiling a certain person before the events of "The Agamemnon"?
(a) She was afraid her daughter might tempt her lover.
(b) She wanted to keep her son safe from Trojan assassins.
(c) She was afraid that gods would smite her son.
(d) She wanted him out of the way of her lover's ascension.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In which city does "The Oresteia" begin?

2. In the first part of the first play, what does the chorus say of Agamemnon's fate?

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

4. What gift did Apollo give Cassandra before the events of The Oresteia?

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

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