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

2. Why does Apollo claim that Clytemnestra needed to be killed?
(a) She was an adulteress.
(b) She killed her husband.
(c) Iphigenia was wrongly murdered.
(d) She would have murdered her own children had she not been killed.

3. How does part of the chorus react to the death of Agamemnon?
(a) They are indifferent.
(b) They grieve for their king.
(c) They are joyous.
(d) They believe he got what he deserved.

4. In her first appearance, Clytemnestra claims the chorus does not believe her. On what grounds does she base this claim?
(a) She is not faithful to her husband.
(b) She is a woman.
(c) She is an inexperienced queen.
(d) She is not a holy woman.

5. To whom does the oracle pray after her vision in the beginning of The Eumenides?
(a) Athena.
(b) Hermes.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Zeus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the herald believe what he claims about Agamemnon's brother?

2. Where was Orestes when he was told to avenge his father?

3. According to Clytemnestra, where are the signals that the man on the roof was watching for?

4. What reasoning did Clytemnestra give for exiling a certain person before the events of "The Agamemnon"?

5. What is Aegisthus's relationship to Clytemnestra as demonstrated at the end of "The Agamemnon"?

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