House of Names: A Novel Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

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

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

A sacrifice to appease the goddess Artemis.

Iphigenia’s marriage to Achilles.

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

2.

At the end of Chapter Three, Electra goes to her father’s grave and prays for a sign regarding Orestes’ whereabouts. This sign comes in the shape of: (from Chapter Three: Electra)

A messenger, who arrives at the palace with a letter from Orestes.

Rain.

Ominous whispers.

A flash of thunder.

3.

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)

Clytemnestra, and how she must have felt betrayed.

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.

4.

At the end of Chapter Two, after the old woman, Mitros, and the dog have died, Orestes and Leander take comfort in what fact(s)? (from Chapter Two: Orestes)

They, too, will die soon – and then all of them will be together again.

They can now return home.

They have each other and then can now return home.

They have each other.

5.

In Chapter Five, Clytemnestra recounts her experience in the land between the living and the dead. Memories flicker across her field of vision. What is the one memory that persists? (from Chapter Five: Clytemnestra)

Iphigenia’s death.

The moment immediately before she killed Agamemnon.

The moment immediately following Agamemnon’s death.

A scene in which her mother is being assaulted by a figure with a beak and wings.

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