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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. What do the Furies celebrate in poem and dance in the second part of "The Eumenides"?
(a) The vengeance of all women.
(b) Their immortality, power, and divine right.
(c) The imminent death of Orestes.
(d) The freedom of Clytemnestra's soul.

2. What does Clytemnestra remind the chorus to do after Aegisthus's outburst?
(a) Pray to the gods.
(b) Make offerings for Agamemnon's soul.
(c) Never tell anyone what they witnessed.
(d) Keep to their place.

3. How does Agamemnon agree to walk on the carpet?
(a) In his boots.
(b) Carrying his wife.
(c) Barefoot.
(d) On a horse.

4. What message does Clytemnestra send to Agamemnon through the herald?
(a) She does not wish to see him.
(b) She wants to take him to Apollo's temple for blessings.
(c) She is pregnant with his child.
(d) She has been loyal and faithful.

5. What does Electra find on her father's tomb?
(a) A book of verse.
(b) Orestes' sword.
(c) Letters she wrote to her brother.
(d) A lock of Orestes' hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Eumenides claim about Orestes' travels in the second part of "The Eumenides"?

2. To what does the chorus compare Troy after the herald exits?

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

4. To Aegisthus's consternation, of what does the chorus remind him?

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

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