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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is coming true for Clytemnestra in the fourth part of "The Libation Bearers"?
(a) A prophecy revealed by Demeter.
(b) A curse passed on by Apollo.
(c) A blessing given to her by Hera.
(d) Her dream about the snake.

2. Who commanded Orestes to seek vengeance for his father's death?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Hermes.
(c) Hephaestus.
(d) Apollo.

3. What does Orestes realize about his mother's dream?
(a) It prophesizes the murder of Clytemnestra by Aegisthus.
(b) It prophesizes his revenge against his mother.
(c) It prophesizes his failure in his revenge.
(d) It prophesizes the death of Electra

4. What does Athena name the judges who will vote on whether Orestes is guilty or not in the last part of the third play?
(a) The Eumidagos.
(b) The Areopagus.
(c) The oracles.
(d) The Colopagus.

5. About whom was the oracle's vision?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Clytemnestra.
(c) Electra.
(d) Orestes and the Furies.

6. According to Apollo, why should Orestes be left alone?
(a) Electra would have killed Clytemnestra and Orestes saved her from it.
(b) Orestes was meant to kill his mother a long time ago.
(c) Clytemnestra deserved to die.
(d) Apollo himself sent Orestes to kill his mother.

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

8. Why does Apollo claim that Clytemnestra needed to be killed?
(a) She was an adulteress.
(b) Iphigenia was wrongly murdered.
(c) She killed her husband.
(d) She would have murdered her own children had she not been killed.

9. Whom must Cilissa go fetch?
(a) The leader of the chorus.
(b) Electra.
(c) Aegisthus.
(d) Clytemnestra.

10. What ends up freeing Orestes from the Furies at the end of "The Eumenides"?
(a) Agamemnon's spirit asks the Furies to pursue him in Orestes' place.
(b) Athena's vote for Orestes breaks the tie in the Areopagus.
(c) Clytemnestra's spirit pleads for her son's freedom.
(d) The Areopagus votes for Orestes.

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

12. What has Electra been forced to do in the years since her father's death?
(a) Disown her brother.
(b) Disown her father.
(c) Mourn him in secret.
(d) Treat Aegisthus as her father.

13. What does Orestes firmly reinforce while protesting his innocence to the council?
(a) He was acting on Zeus's will.
(b) He was acting on Apollo's will.
(c) He was acting on his father's will.
(d) He was acting on his own will.

14. What does Clytemnestra call out for when she hears the noise from inside the palace in the third part of "The Libation Bearers"?
(a) The Furies.
(b) An axe.
(c) Zeus's intervention.
(d) A sword.

15. What does Aegisthus claim after his entrance in "The Libation Bearers"?
(a) He is the father of Orestes.
(b) He cannot be fooled.
(c) He is thrice blessed by the gods.
(d) He is the wisest man in Mycenae.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose ghost is urging the Eumenides to chase Orestes?

2. To whom does the oracle pray after her vision in the beginning of The Eumenides?

3. How does Clytemnestra plead for her life to Orestes?

4. Where does the beginning of "The Eumenides" take place?

5. What does Apollo claim about mothers and fathers in the last part of "The Eumenides"?

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