House of Names: A Novel Quiz

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When Orestes and Leander decide to escape the boarding house together, they plan to what? (from Chapter Two: Orestes)

Wait until Mitros has a particularly bad coughing fit at night, and then escape when the guard enters the dormitory.

Cause a scene at dinnertime, and escape in the aftermath.

Cry for help.

Hide in a closet in the hallway, and ambush the guard when he is least expecting it.

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.

Clytemnestra, and how she must have felt betrayed.

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

When he returns to the palace, Electra orchestrates the plan that will be used to kill Clytemnestra. Orestes is to take a walk with his mother in the garden, and, when the two are alone, he will do what? (from Chapter Four: Orestes)

Strangle her.

Find a knife concealed under a rock and stab her with it.

Find a loose rock and bludgeon her with it.

Find a spear hidden in a tree branch and impale her with it.

Following the release of Theodotus and Mitros (Senior), Clytemnestra resolves to send Orestes away, to join whom? (from Chapter Four: Orestes)

Agamemnon’s brother, Menelaus, and his wife Penelope.

Aeigisthus, who is currently quelling the rebellion.

Dinos, who is currently quelling the rebellion.

The Mycenaean army, currently in combat with Leander’s men.

A guard in the employment of the rebellion visits Orestes in the night, telling him to travel to Leander’s home at the earliest time possible. When Orestes arrives, he is affronted to see what? (from Chapter Four: Orestes)

The village has been razed.

Mitros’ house has completely disappeared.

All Leander’s family minus his sister, Ianthe, has been murdered.

All Leander’s family has been murdered.