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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 was Paris's actual deed that set off the Trojan War?
(a) He dishonored Aphrodite.
(b) He rejected Apollo.
(c) He murdered Menelaus.
(d) He kidnapped Helen.

2. For whom do the disguised Orestes and Pylades cry out while outside the palace?
(a) Cilissa.
(b) Electra.
(c) Clytemnestra.
(d) Aegisthus.

3. What woman is accompanying Agamemnon on his return to Mycenae?
(a) Andromache.
(b) Briseis.
(c) Phoebe.
(d) Cassandra.

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

5. What interrupts the chorus's meditations on life at the end of the fourth part of "The Agamemnon"?
(a) Cassandra is screaming.
(b) Orestes returns to the city.
(c) Clytemnestra is laughing.
(d) Agamemnon is screaming.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Clytemnestra, what did she watch for while Agamemnon was gone?

2. What is Cassandra's last vision in "The Agamemnon"?

3. While mourning her father at his grave, what does Electra pray for the most?

4. What do the Furies claim about Orestes to Athena?

5. How does Agamemnon make his entrance?

(see the answer key)

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