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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Trojan Women": How do the Greeks kill Andromache's son?
(a) Throw him from the battlements.
(b) Behead him.
(c) Run him over with horses.
(d) Stone him.

2. "The Bacchants": What tells the women to burn down the house of Pentheus?
(a) A moonbeam.
(b) A lightning bolt.
(c) A thunderbolt.
(d) A nymph.

3. "Trojan Women": When does the king say he will kill Helen?
(a) When they leave Troy.
(b) When they return to Rome.
(c) When they return to Greece.
(d) He will not kill her.

4. "Iphigenia among Taurians": When Iphigenia realizes that one of the captured men is her brother, she devises a plan while helping them fulfill Apollo's orders. What will this plan help her do?
(a) See her father.
(b) Raise her status.
(c) Gain access to riches.
(d) Escape.

5. "Electra": What does Orestes do as his mother comes to Electra's house?
(a) Runs away.
(b) Leaves.
(c) Stands next to Electra.
(d) Hides.

6. "Iphigenia at Aulis": What did Agamemnon do that upsets Achilles?
(a) Promised he would be married.
(b) Used his name without permission.
(c) Lied to his daughter.
(d) Took the sacrifice away.

7. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Iphigenia was intended to be a sacrifice but was spirited away to where?
(a) Tarrgot.
(b) Taurus.
(c) Tarturus.
(d) Thessalia.

8. "Iphigenia at Aulis": Who spirited Iphigenia away from the sacrifice?
(a) Artemis.
(b) Hera.
(c) Poseidon.
(d) Apollo.

9. "The Bacchants": Who leads the attack on Pentheus?
(a) Alicia.
(b) Agrippa.
(c) Agave.
(d) Alluna.

10. "Electra": Where is Orestes going to be tried and acquitted?
(a) Athens.
(b) Thessalia.
(c) Syracuse.
(d) Delphi.

11. "Trojan Women": With which Greek man does Hecuba go?
(a) Odysseus.
(b) Ulysses.
(c) Jason.
(d) Tartus.

12. "Iphigenia at Aulis": When the priest was about to slit Iphigenia's throat, what appeared in her place?
(a) A sheep.
(b) A fawn.
(c) A cow.
(d) A goat.

13. "The Bacchants": What is the name of the special staff that followers of Dionysus carry?
(a) Staveus.
(b) Furrius.
(c) Rhysus.
(d) Thyrsus.

14. "Iphigenia at Aulis": What does Agamemnon give to the servant to take to his family?
(a) His riches.
(b) A letter.
(c) His robe.
(d) Money.

15. "Trojan Women": The play begins after the fall of what city?
(a) Athens.
(b) Sparta.
(c) Troy.
(d) Corinth.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Electra": Who is Orestes' father?

2. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Whom did Iphigenia's father tell her she was going to marry?

3. "Electra": Who did Orestes and Pylades claim to be when the met the king?

4. "The Bacchants": In the jail, whom does Pentheus question when the women have escaped?

5. "Iphigenia at Aulis": Where does Agamemnon put his family when they arrive?

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