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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 does Clytemnestra try to get Cassandra to do in the fourth part of "The Agamemnon"?
(a) Enter the palace.
(b) Greet her properly.
(c) Leave the city.
(d) Drink some wine.

2. What does Clytemnestra's entrance reveal in the fifth part of "The Agamemnon"?
(a) Aegisthus is preparing to murder her.
(b) The ghost of her daughter is following her.
(c) Orestes has returned.
(d) Agamemnon and Cassandra are murdered.

3. How does Clytemnestra defend her actions against Agamemnon to the chorus?
(a) She argues that she cannot be cursed again.
(b) She argues that there never was a curse.
(c) She argues that she ended the curse.
(d) She argues that the Furies will not hurt her.

4. What is the herald's opinion on Troy and Paris?
(a) They got what they deserved.
(b) Paris should have surrendered and the city left untouched.
(c) It is a tragedy.
(d) The city should have turned Paris over to the Greeks.

5. What is Aegisthus's reaction when the chorus brings up Clytemnestra and her role in the murders?
(a) He ignores them.
(b) He goes back inside.
(c) He meekly agrees.
(d) He threatens them violently.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Clytemnestra, where are the signals that the man on the roof was watching for?

2. How does Agamemnon make his entrance?

3. According to Agamemnon, what kept him strong during the war?

4. What does Aegisthus brag about to the chorus?

5. For what does Clytemnestra triumphantly reproach the chorus in the fifth part of "The Agamemnon"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Cassandra describe Apollo and why?

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

4. What evidence does Electra find that convinces her Orestes has returned to Mycenae?

5. Why did Agamemnon go to Troy?

6. How did Agamemnon make the winds blow so that they might sail to Troy before the events of the play?

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

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

9. What is Clytemnestra's vision for the future after the death of Agamemnon?

10. Why does Aegisthus threaten the chorus?

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