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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Play 3, Part 1 (p. 199-205).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. For which family member's sake did Agamemnon go to Troy?
(a) Priam.
(b) Hector.
(c) Menelaus.
(d) Paris.

3. What does Aegisthus brag about to the chorus?
(a) He claims to have bested Apollo in a competition.
(b) He claims to have killed Cassandra.
(c) He claims to have planned Agamemnon's death.
(d) He claims to have killed Agamemnon.

4. What was Apollo's reaction to Cassandra not meeting his expectations when he granted her with a gift?
(a) He turned the other gods against her.
(b) He cursed her to speak the truth but never to be believed.
(c) He impregnated her, shaming her family.
(d) He took away her gift of prophecy.

5. What is concerning the chorus at the end of Play 1, Part 1?
(a) They do not know if Agamemnon knows that his wife has not been faithful.
(b) They do not know if Agamemnon's return is as joyful as they believed.
(c) They do not know if there is a Trojan assassin waiting for them.
(d) They do not know if Troy has truly fallen.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the first play, how is the chorus described in the narration?

2. How does Orestes convince Electra that he is her brother when they find each other at Agamemnon's tomb?

3. To whom does Orestes pray while at his father's tomb?

4. What does Clytemnestra wish for herself and her country at the end of the Agamemnon?

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

(see the answer key)

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