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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 6, who does Ianthe tell first that she is pregnant?
(a) Electra and Leander.
(b) Aegisthus.
(c) An elder.
(d) Orestes.

2. What comes to Clytemnestra in Chapter 5?
(a) Animals and breezes.
(b) Outlines and voices.
(c) Faints wisps of consciousness.
(d) Thoughts of people.

3. In Chapter 5, when someone comes near to Clytemnestra, who does she think it might be?
(a) Someone she murdered.
(b) Someone she loved.
(c) A family member.
(d) Someone she hated.

4. In Chapter 4, why does Clytemnestra say that Aegisthus eats with them?
(a) They are in danger.
(b) He protects them.
(c) He is part of the family.
(d) He saved them.

5. What does Clytemnestra think she needs to do to see more in Chapter 5?
(a) Look harder.
(b) Call out.
(c) Be still.
(d) Wander.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 4, what time of day does Clytemnestra want Orestes to leave and meet Dinos?

2. How many nights after planning how to free Mitros and Theodotus does Orestes go to rescue them?

3. In Chapter, 5 when Clytemnestra fades and is at the end, what does she think she will know at that time?

4. In Chapter 6,, who is rumored to be Leander's prisoner?

5. In Chapter 4, what does Aegisthus do when Clytemnestra asks him if they had any control when Orestes was taken away?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 5, how does Clytemnestra get Orestes' attention, and what happens when the guards sense her?

2. What does Orestes realize about the boys who were in the detention place with him in Chapter 6?

3. In Chapter 4, what does Clytemnestra say about trust?

4. How does Electra change with Leander's return?

5. In Chapter 4, what does Clytemnestra tell Orestes about his being sent away?

6. In Chapter 4, what do Leander and Orestes find when they get to the house where the man herded goats?

7. In Chapter 4, what does Clytemnestra ask Orestes to help her with in the morning?

8. In Chapter 4, what does Leander catch in a trap and why is it difficult to eat?

9. What is Aegisthus' position once Leander returns?

10. In Chapter 4 when Orestes returns to the palace, what does his mother tell him about Theodotus?

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