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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Electra, pages 42-66.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Clytemnestra claim's she only avenged whose death?
(a) Her husband's.
(b) Her son's.
(c) Her mother's.
(d) Her daughter's.

2. What does Electra's husband chastise her for doing in the beginning of Electra?
(a) Singing.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Servile tasks.
(d) Beating a cow.

3. Who is Clytemnestra's daughter?
(a) Electra.
(b) Dioscuri.
(c) Antigone.
(d) Pylades.

4. Who does Electra tell her husband the messengers are from?
(a) Polyneices.
(b) Orestes.
(c) Clytemnestra.
(d) Aegisthus.

5. What does the chorus inform Electra of in the beginning of Electra?
(a) A funeral.
(b) A wedding.
(c) An upcoming feast day.
(d) Her brother's arrival.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Electra send her husband to go find when the strangers enter the cottage?

2. Where does Orestes' party find Aegisthus?

3. What goddess will be celebrated in the beginning of Electra?

4. What does Electra's husband say that it's improper for Electra to do?

5. What does Orestes ask the old servant once he is discovered?

(see the answer key)

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