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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 - Clytemnestra.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a guard want to know at the end of Chapter 5 when he speaks to Clytemnestra?
(a) Where she is going.
(b) If she means to harm Orestes.
(c) Why she has come.
(d) Who she is.

2. At the end of Chapter 5, what do the guards do when Clytemnestra whispers Orestes' name?
(a) Check and make sure Electra and Orestes are safe.
(b) Draw their swords.
(c) Call for more guards.
(d) Run back and forth and check doorways and corners.

3. In Chapter 3, who does Electra say are her companions?
(a) Several daughters of elders.
(b) A couple servant girls.
(c) Her father and sister.
(d) Children in the palace.

4. In Chapter 2, what work are Leander, Mithros, and Orestes offered in return for food and shelter from a man with goats?
(a) Clean out barns.
(b) Dig ditches.
(c) Milk goats.
(d) Sow a field.

5. In Chapter 3, where does Electra get new clothes?
(a) Her mother orders new clothes for her.
(b) She hires a seamstress.
(c) Aegisthus brings them to her.
(d) From her sister's wardrobe.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, when a messenger comes with a message for Aegisthus' what does Electra sees in Aegisthus' eyes?

2. In Chapter 2, how long does Orestes go without being beaten by the guards?

3. What does Clytemnestra think she needs to do to see more in Chapter 5?

4. In Chapter 2, what does a guard discover when he goes to look for food?

5. Where does Clytemnestra walk on page 241?

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