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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 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 has Clytemnestra placed at all the shrines in Mycenae?
(a) Blasphemous offerings.
(b) Offerings to the gods.
(c) Guards.
(d) Maidens to pray.

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

4. How does the chorus feel about Cassandra?
(a) They are dismissive of her.
(b) They sympathize with her.
(c) They are in awe of her.
(d) They are repulsed by her.

5. For what does Cassandra pray in the fourth part of the first play?
(a) Redemption.
(b) Agamemnon to survive.
(c) An afterlife.
(d) An easy death.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Agamemnon make his entrance?

3. What city does Clytemnestra describe as being ruined, burned, and full of mourning for the dead?

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

5. What is concerning the chorus at the end of Play 1, Part 1?

(see the answer key)

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