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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Play 2, Part 1 (p. 165-171).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What feelings suddenly strike the chorus after Agamemnon enters his palace?
(a) They have feelings of sickness.
(b) They have feelings of foreboding.
(c) They have feelings of hysteria.
(d) They have feelings of joy.

2. What does Orestes wonder about the women approaching his father's tomb?
(a) He wonders if they are there to move his father's body to safety.
(b) He wonders if they are there to celebrate his father's life.
(c) He wonders if they are there to mourn his father or a new tragedy.
(d) He wonders if they are there to desecrate the tomb.

3. What do the female attendants lay on the ground for Agamemnon to walk upon?
(a) A gold cloth.
(b) A red cloth.
(c) A white cloth.
(d) A purple cloth.

4. What does Clytemnestra wish for herself and her country at the end of the Agamemnon?
(a) She wishes to conquer the next city.
(b) She wishes to retire as queen.
(c) She wishes to live peacefully.
(d) She wishes to have another child to take over for her.

5. Towards the end of the first play, what does the chorus tell Clytemnestra they refuse to do?
(a) Allow Agamemnon to be buried without any offerings made to the gods.
(b) Allow her to retire.
(c) Allow her son to return.
(d) Allow Aegisthus to rule Mycenae.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Cassandra enters the castle and their monologue is interrupted, what dispute rises amongst the chorus?

2. What does Clytemnestra assume about Cassandra?

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

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

5. What does the signal that the man on the roof sees mean?

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