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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. After Cassandra enters the castle and their monologue is interrupted, what dispute rises amongst the chorus?
(a) They do not know if Cassandra spoke the truth.
(b) They do not know whether to stop the murder or let it be.
(c) They do not know if Agamemnon or Clytemnestra is the more vicious of the two rulers.
(d) They do not know if there are gods walking among them.

2. According to the chorus, to what did Clytemnestra give birth in her dream?
(a) A snake.
(b) A goat.
(c) A lion.
(d) A gorgon.

3. For which family member's sake did Agamemnon go to Troy?
(a) Paris.
(b) Priam.
(c) Menelaus.
(d) Hector.

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

5. To Aegisthus's consternation, of what does the chorus remind him?
(a) He is not of royal blood.
(b) He was not fit to be a soldier.
(c) He is half the man that Agamemnon was.
(d) Clytemnestra did all the work in murdering Agamemnon.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. For what does Clytemnestra scold the chorus in the second part of the first play?

4. What woman is accompanying Agamemnon on his return to Mycenae?

5. What do the female attendants lay on the ground for Agamemnon to walk upon?

(see the answer key)

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