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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Clytemnestra placed at all the shrines in Mycenae?
(a) Maidens to pray.
(b) Guards.
(c) Blasphemous offerings.
(d) Offerings to the gods.

2. In her first appearance, Clytemnestra claims the chorus does not believe her. On what grounds does she base this claim?
(a) She is not faithful to her husband.
(b) She is a woman.
(c) She is an inexperienced queen.
(d) She is not a holy woman.

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

4. Why does the herald believe what he claims about Agamemnon's brother?
(a) Helen loves Menelaus too much to harm him.
(b) Menelaus is too good of a sailor to get lost.
(c) He does not believe Zeus is ready to take him yet.
(d) Menelaus angered the gods by burning Troy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Aegisthus's relationship to Clytemnestra as demonstrated at the end of "The Agamemnon"?

2. What feelings suddenly strike the chorus after Agamemnon enters his palace?

3. How does Agamemnon make his entrance?

4. What does somber information does the chorus remind the herald of?

5. Whom does Orestes wonder might be leading the crowd of women coming to Agamemnon's tomb?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the chorus's opinions on Paris and his actions in the second part of "The Agamemnon"?

2. What is significant about Agamemnon walking into his palace barefoot?

3. What feelings does the Watchman have while on the roof in the beginning of the play?

4. What does Aegisthus claim about himself and about the murders?

5. What dispute does Clytemnestra have with the chorus over the consequences of her murdering Agamemnon and Cassandra?

6. To what does the chorus compare Troy and why?

7. What does Orestes find mysterious about the women approaching Agamemnon's tomb?

8. What is the continuing theme among the chorus as to what happened to Troy and why?

9. What happened to Menelaus, according to the herald?

10. What message does Clytemnestra send with the herald to Agamemnon?

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