The Oresteia Test | Final Test - Easy

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The Oresteia Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Orestes when he was told to avenge his father?
(a) Ithaca.
(b) Athens.
(c) The oracle at Delphi.
(d) Sparta.

2. What does Orestes hold up as proof that his father has been avenged?
(a) The crown.
(b) The cloth that Agamemnon was trapped in before he was murdered.
(c) His mother's bloody robes.
(d) Aegisthus's bloody robes.

3. What false news does the disguised Orestes give Clytemnestra?
(a) Orestes is dead.
(b) Electra is dead.
(c) Electra has run away.
(d) Orestes is returning.

4. What does Orestes wonder about Aegisthus after he has murdered his mother?
(a) He wonders if Aegisthus was truly guilty.
(b) He wonders if Aegisthus was repenting his sins in the last moments of his life.
(c) He wonders if Aegisthus suffered during his death.
(d) He wonders if Aegisthus is receiving an adulterer's punishment.

5. What is the result of the judges' vote after the trial?
(a) The vote is divided evenly.
(b) The vote is in favor of Orestes.
(c) The judges did not vote as they wished to avoid the wrath of the Furies and of the gods.
(d) The vote is in favor of the Furies.

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

7. According to Apollo in the first part of the third play, where must Orestes travel?
(a) Athens.
(b) Sparta.
(c) Crete.
(d) Mycenae.

8. What do the Furies tell Apollo about their hunt for Orestes?
(a) It is their right to punish those who murder their mothers.
(b) It is their right to hunt someone who has left his sister an orphan.
(c) It is their right to hunt whom they please.
(d) It is their right to avenge the death of Iphigenia upon anyone connected.

9. To whom does Orestes pray when he arrives at the destination Apollo sent him to?
(a) Athena.
(b) Demeter.
(c) Aphrodite.
(d) Hera.

10. What is revealed with Orestes in the fourth part of "The Libation Bearers"?
(a) Electra's body.
(b) His father's armor.
(c) Aegisthus's body.
(d) Cilissa's body.

11. What does Orestes claim has taken away the sin of his mother's murder away?
(a) Grief.
(b) The sins of the the mother.
(c) Time.
(d) The blessings of the gods.

12. What is heard from inside the palace after Aegisthus enters it?
(a) Orestes screaming as he is murdered by Aegisthus.
(b) Pylades is screaming as Aegisthus murders him.
(c) Aegisthus screaming as he is being murdered.
(d) Electra screaming as Aegisthus murders her.

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

14. From where has Athena flown when she makes her entrance?
(a) Mycenae.
(b) Delphi.
(c) Rome.
(d) Troy.

15. What question does Orestes ask Pylades while confronted by his mother?
(a) He does not know if Zeus is truly watching.
(b) He does not know whether he should kill his sister.
(c) He does not know if he should kill himself after his revenge.
(d) He does not know whether he should kill his mother or spare her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What confuses Orestes about Clytemnestra's orders for the tomb?

2. What do the Furies celebrate in poem and dance in the second part of "The Eumenides"?

3. What do the Furies complain about when Athena leaves in the second part of the third play?

4. What is coming true for Clytemnestra in the fourth part of "The Libation Bearers"?

5. Whom must Cilissa go fetch?

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