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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) Go to festivals.
(b) Dance.
(c) Sing.
(d) Speak with strange men.

2. What has Orestes returned to do in Electra?
(a) Take the crown from his brother.
(b) Marry Electra.
(c) Marry Iphegenia.
(d) Kill Aegisthus and Clytemnestra.

3. In The Phoenician Women, who has been living in Argos and marries a woman there?
(a) Teiresius.
(b) Oedipus.
(c) Polyneices.
(d) Eteocles.

4. What food and provisions are brought to Electra for her and her guests?
(a) Lamb, olives, and water.
(b) Bull, mead and water.
(c) Lamb, onions, and potatoes.
(d) Lamb, flowers, cheese and wine.

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

6. Who does Electra ask to hide the body of Aegisthus?
(a) The chorus.
(b) Orestes.
(c) Pylades.
(d) The farmer.

7. Who takes the first year of rule over Thebes, but will not give up the throne when it comes time for his brother to take over?
(a) Eteocles.
(b) Polyneices.
(c) Oedipus.
(d) Creon.

8. Who has a plan for how to kill Clytemnestra?
(a) Electra.
(b) The old servant.
(c) Aegisthus.
(d) Orestes.

9. Who is killed in sacrifice for the Trojan War?
(a) Eteocles.
(b) Iphegenia.
(c) Hermia.
(d) Dioscuri.

10. Who kills Laius in The Phoenician Women?
(a) Eteocles.
(b) Oedipus.
(c) Jocasta.
(d) Antigone.

11. Who does Orestes pretend to be when he meets his sister?
(a) A farmer.
(b) A king.
(c) A messenger.
(d) A beggar.

12. Who has Agamemnon brought back as a concubine from the war?
(a) Clytemnestra.
(b) Antigone.
(c) Cassandra.
(d) Iphegenia.

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

14. What is Oedipus awarded for lifting the torment on Thebes?
(a) Noblehood.
(b) Gold.
(c) The kingdom.
(d) A diamond.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the chorus sing of, that went with Agamemnon to war?

2. Whose servant arrives with food for Electra and her guests?

3. Who does Orestes say must be repaid for his kindness?

4. Who does Electra say was NOT properly buried?

5. Who invites the messengers into the cottage?

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