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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Phoenician Women, pages 73-98.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Aegisthus want to kill for fear of revenge?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Pylades.
(c) Orestes.
(d) Clytemnestra.

2. Who enters with Antigone in her first entrance in The Phoenician Women?
(a) Jocasta.
(b) Teiresius.
(c) The pedagogue.
(d) Polyneices.

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

4. Who does Oedipus marry?
(a) Jocasta.
(b) Electra.
(c) Eteocles.
(d) Antigone.

5. Who appears in the heavens at the end of Electra?
(a) Artemis.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Dionysus.
(d) The Dioscuri.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Aegisthus beg to protect him and destroy his enemies?

2. What does Aegisthus throw on the altar when with Orestes?

3. How did Orestes attain the mark the servant speaks of?

4. Who kills Laius in The Phoenician Women?

5. Who does Orestes pretend to be when he meets his sister?

(see the answer key)

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