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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Electra's husband say that it's improper for Electra to do?
(a) Speak with strange men.
(b) Sing.
(c) Go to festivals.
(d) Dance.

2. Whose servant arrives with food for Electra and her guests?
(a) Orestes'.
(b) Clytemnestra's.
(c) Aegisthus'.
(d) Agamemnon's.

3. Who is Laius' son?
(a) Eteocles.
(b) Polyneices.
(c) Oedipus.
(d) Teiresius.

4. By what is Orestes recognized?
(a) A scar.
(b) A freckle.
(c) His eyes.
(d) His mouth.

5. Who kills Agamemnon?
(a) Clytemnestra and Aegisthus.
(b) Antigone.
(c) Iphegenia.
(d) Orestes and Electra.

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

7. Who does Aegisthus beg to protect him and destroy his enemies?
(a) Ares.
(b) The Nymphs.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Dionysus.

8. Orestes fears being tried for what?
(a) Patricide.
(b) Murder.
(c) Matricide.
(d) Theft.

9. Who was Clytemnestra's first husband?
(a) Pentheus.
(b) Orestes.
(c) Aegisthus.
(d) Agamemnon.

10. Orestes tells Electra that he's having second thoughts about killing whom?
(a) Aegisthus.
(b) Iphegenia.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Clytemnestra.

11. Who does the chorus sing about that would right the wrongs being slain in Electra?
(a) Electra and Orestes.
(b) Antigone and Aegisthus.
(c) Clytemnestra and Aegisthus.
(d) Agamemnon.

12. What does Laius do with his son?
(a) Kills him.
(b) Buries him alive.
(c) Sells him to a farmer.
(d) Abandons him to die.

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

14. Whose marriage in Electra has NOT been consummated?
(a) Antigone's.
(b) Clytemnestra's.
(c) Orestes'.
(d) Electra's.

15. Who does Electra send her husband to go find when the strangers enter the cottage?
(a) Iphegenia.
(b) Clytemnestra.
(c) Her father's servant.
(d) Aegisthus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Electra chide her husband for after the messenger has appeared?

2. Clytemnestra claim's she only avenged whose death?

3. How long is Agamemnon gone to war?

4. Who does Electra tell her husband the messengers are from?

5. Who enters with Antigone in her first entrance in The Phoenician Women?

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