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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Play 1, Part 3 (p.133-140).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the first character to speak in "The Oresteia"?
(a) The Watchman.
(b) The leader of the chorus.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Menelaus.

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

4. What kept Agamemnon from leaving for Troy right away?
(a) He did not feel he had probable cause to go to Troy.
(b) A prophecy.
(c) He did not wish to leave his family.
(d) No wind.

5. In the first part of the first play, what signal is the man on the roof looking for?
(a) A moonbeam.
(b) A bonfire.
(c) An arrow.
(d) A ship.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Agamemnon think about this particular welcome home?

2. About whom does the chorus ask the herald for news?

3. What is the lineage of the woman with Agamemnon in the third part of the first play?

4. How does Agamemnon agree to walk on the carpet?

5. What does the herald believe about Agamemnon's brother?

(see the answer key)

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