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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. According to the chorus in the second part of the first play, what will always prevail?
(a) Justice.
(b) Loyalty.
(c) Vengeance.
(d) Love.

2. What does Clytemnestra claim about her life since Agamemnon left for war?
(a) She claims to have been fine without him.
(b) She claims that her life improved after he left.
(c) She claims to have been lonely without him.
(d) She says that she remarried in his absence.

3. What does Orestes wonder about the women approaching his father's tomb?
(a) He wonders if they are there to mourn his father or a new tragedy.
(b) He wonders if they are there to move his father's body to safety.
(c) He wonders if they are there to desecrate the tomb.
(d) He wonders if they are there to celebrate his father's life.

4. According to the herald and the chorus, what has happened to Agamemnon's brother?
(a) His men mutinied against him on the return home.
(b) His ship is lost after a storm.
(c) He was killed in battle.
(d) He has returns home safely.

5. To whom does Orestes pray while at his father's tomb?
(a) Hera and Demeter.
(b) Athena and Apollo.
(c) Aphrodite and Diana.
(d) Hermes and Zeus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Agamemnon tell Clytemnestra to greet and treat well?

2. What goddess demanded Iphigenia in sacrifice?

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

4. Why does Agamemnon walk inside his palace the way he does?

5. For what does Cassandra pray in the fourth part of the first play?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the chorus of women comment upon while bewailing their grief over Agamemnon?

2. How does Cassandra describe Apollo and why?

3. What are Agamemnon's feelings about Troy?

4. For what does Clytemnestra take particular offense with the chorus in the last part of "The Agamemnon"?

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

6. What news does Clytemnestra bring the chorus in the beginning of "The Agamemnon"?

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

8. Why does Cassandra finally walk into the palace?

9. Why does Clytemnestra lose patience with Cassandra in the fourth part of "The Agamemnon"?

10. What is Electra supposed to do at her father's tomb?

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