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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 2, what does a guard discover when he goes to look for food?
(a) Some soldiers and slaves have escaped.
(b) The wells have been poisoned.
(c) Bandits are in the woods.
(d) The fields have been salted.

2. On page 241, what is guiding Clytemnestra?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Iphigenia.
(c) Shadowy stability.
(d) A spirit.

3. In Chapter 3, when there is a revolt, who defeats the marauding forces?
(a) Dinos.
(b) Adonis.
(c) Balios.
(d) Esdras.

4. In Chapter 1, what did Agamemnon plan to kill before killing Iphigenia?
(a) Lambs.
(b) Calves.
(c) Heifers.
(d) Bulls.

5. In Chapter 4, what does Aegisthus do when Clytemnestra asks him if they had any control when Orestes was taken away?
(a) Clears his throat.
(b) Drops his food.
(c) Leaves the room.
(d) Knocks over his drink.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Clytemnestra describe her awareness at the beginning of Chapter 5?

2. What does Aegisthus threaten to do to Electra after she learns her mother killed her father?

3. In Chapter 1, when Clytemnestra tried to curse her husband and the men who are sacrificing her daughter, what happened to her?

4. In Chatper 2 in the story Mithros told, how long did swans fly?

5. In Chapter 3, what does Electra remember hearing at nightfall when she and her sister would meet in a deserted place?

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