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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Phoenician Women, pages 114-140.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Aegisthus preparing to offer the goddess Nymphs in Electra?
(a) A slaughtered bull.
(b) A slaughtered lamb.
(c) A slaughtered virgin.
(d) A slaughtered dragon.

2. Eteocles decrees anyone who buries his brother in Thebes be what?
(a) Exiled.
(b) Killed.
(c) Imprisoned.
(d) Fined.

3. Polyneices, with his last breath, begs for what?
(a) To be buried in Thebes.
(b) For his wife to be queen.
(c) To be buried in Athens.
(d) To be buried in Argos.

4. Who says to the dead Aegisthus that his marriage was godless and filled with evil?
(a) Clytemnestra.
(b) The farmer.
(c) Orestes.
(d) Electra.

5. In the Phoenician Women, who does Ares seek revenge against?
(a) Creon.
(b) Eteocles.
(c) Oedipus.
(d) Cadmus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Eteocles pray to for victory in the duel?

2. For what does Aegisthus offer Orestes party water?

3. Whose army is chased away at the end of the battle in The Phoenician Women?

4. Who comes to inform Electra of the success of Orestes' deed?

5. What does Aegisthus take to predict the future?

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