House of Names: A Novel Quiz

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The novel ends following Orestes’ encounter with his mother’s ghost, who tells him what? (from Chapter Six: Orestes)

She is going to haunt him for the rest of his days.

She has been reunited with Iphigenea and Agamemnon.

She is in pain.

She is alone and has no one.

In Chapter One, Clytemnestra, Iphigenia, and Orestes are lured to Aulis by Agamemnon on the pretense of what? (from Chapter One: Clytemnestra)

A festival in support of the goddess Artemis, meant to bring the Achaians good luck.

Orestes’ coming-of-age ceremony: a sword-fight between father and son.

Iphigenia’s marriage to Achilles.

A sacrifice to appease the goddess Artemis.

After returning home, Orestes inquires how his father died. In response, Clytemnestra tells him what? (from Chapter Four: Orestes)

She killed him.

Some of his own soldiers killed him.

Cassandra, his war-prize, killed him while he slept.

Aegisthus killed him.

In Chapter Six, the perspective is once more Orestes’; in the moments following Dinos’ death and Aegisthus’ capture at the hands of Leander’s men, what does he think about? (from Chapter Six: Orestes)

His crime, and the regret he feels for committing it.

His sister, and how she has come to act like Clytemnestra.

His crime, and the regret he feels for not committing it sooner.

Clytemnestra, and how she must have felt betrayed.

Upon returning to Mycenae, Clytemnestra’s relationship with her youngest daughter, Electra, becomes fraught on account of what? (from Chapter One: Clytemnestra)

Rumours that were spread in Clytemnestra’s absence, which said that Electra was adopted.

Rumours that were spread in Clytemnestra’s absence, which said that she cheated on Agamemnon with another man.

Rumours that were spread in Clytemnestra’s absence, which said that she left Electra at home because she was the least favorite daughter.

Rumours that were spread in Clytemnestra’s absence, which said that Clytemnestra did nothing to stop the actions of her husband, in Aulis.