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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Play 3, Part 3 (p.215-230).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is it important that Athena know about Orestes' familial relations?
(a) Athena favored Clytemnestra above all other queens.
(b) Athena favors Electra as a priestess.
(c) Athena favored Agamemnon during the Trojan War.
(d) Athena cursed Atreus.

2. Whom does Agamemnon tell Clytemnestra to greet and treat well?
(a) Andromache.
(b) Cassandra.
(c) Hecuba.
(d) Briseis.

3. For what does the herald thank the gods?
(a) He thanks them for sending him his wife.
(b) He thanks them for having such a benevolent queen.
(c) He thanks them for blessing him and the army.
(d) He thanks them for speaking to him.

4. What is Aegisthus's relationship to Clytemnestra as demonstrated at the end of "The Agamemnon"?
(a) He is her father.
(b) He is her lover.
(c) He is her son.
(d) He is her brother.

5. How does Agamemnon make his entrance?
(a) In a chariot.
(b) On horse back.
(c) On foot.
(d) In a horse-cart.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Orestes claim has taken away the sin of his mother's murder away?

3. What news does Clytemnestra initially bring the chorus?

4. What was Apollo's reaction to Cassandra not meeting his expectations when he granted her with a gift?

5. What is the function of the herald at the beginning of the second part of the first play?

(see the answer key)

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