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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Iphigenia at Aulis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Trojan Women": What is Poseidon the god of?
(a) The sea.
(b) The air.
(c) The sun.
(d) The moon.

2. "Electra": Who is Orestes' father?
(a) Asthendion.
(b) Arestees.
(c) Aeschilles.
(d) Agamemnon.

3. "Ion": Which goddess appears to tell how Ion's descendants will settle many parts of Greece ?
(a) Artemis.
(b) Aphrodite.
(c) Hera.
(d) Athena.

4. "Electra": Electra begins with the speech of a peasant from where?
(a) Helios.
(b) Damascus.
(c) Tarturus.
(d) Mycenae.

5. "Medea": Medea claims that women are the unhappiest creatures on earth for a second reason. What is the second reason?
(a) They have to teach children.
(b) They have to bear the terror of childbirth.
(c) They have to live as mothers to children.
(d) They have to live with men.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Trojan Women": The goddess has decided to attack her former allies, the Greeks, because they have done violence to whom?

2. "Medea": What does Jason claim Medea has learned which makes her better off for his bringing her to Greece?

3. "Alcestis": Who helped Admetus cheat the Fates?

4. "Andromache": How is Peleus described?

5. "Trojan Women": To whom is Helen married?

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