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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 1, why is Iphigenia murdered?
(a) Punish her for thievery.
(b) She tried to murder her father.
(c) Success for the army.
(d) She tried to take the throne.

2. In Chapter 2 after the boys leave the man with goats, what does Orestes see at dawn?
(a) Pigeons.
(b) Ravens.
(c) Seabirds.
(d) Vultures.

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

4. In Chapter 2, when Orestes is left with the other boys, what is the only sound he hears?
(a) Whispering.
(b) Coughing.
(c) Water dripping.
(d) Sneezing.

5. In Chapter 2, what swoops down on the boys as they walk to the old woman's house?
(a) Vultures.
(b) Bats.
(c) Hawks.
(d) Crows.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Orestes when Iphigenia died?

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

3. What does Clytemnestra have for Agamemnon when he comes home from murdering Iphigenia?

4. In Chapter 3, how many female servants are pregnant with Aegisthus' child or already have a baby by him?

5. In Chapter 1, how long had Agamemnon been gone?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 3, what does Theodotus learn about the missing boys?

2. In Chapter 3, where does Electra remember that she and her sister used to go if they wished to speak privately?

3. Why did Agamemnon order Iphigenia to be sacrificed?

4. In Chapter 2, how do Leander, Orestes, and Mithros escape?

5. What does Electra come to realize about the relationship between her mother and Aegisthus and why they stay together?

6. Toward the end of Chapter 3, what does Electra realize might free her and how does she try to gain freedom?

7. How did Agamemnon get Clytemnestra and Iphigenia to come to him?

8. In Chapter 2, what is the first rule that Leander creates and how does he intend for the boys to protect themselves?

9. What happened to Clytenmestra when Iphigenia was sacrificed?

10. How do the boys get the old woman to allow them to stay with her?

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