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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part 3 of Iphigenia in Taurus, Iphigenia offers to spare Orestes' life if he will do what?
(a) If he will offer Pylades' life in return.
(b) Deliver a letter to Argos.
(c) If he will pray to Artemis for her release.
(d) Tell her who he really is.

2. Iphigenia tells the Chorus that she is the doomed victim of what?
(a) Her father's villainy.
(b) Helen's treachery.
(c) Fate.
(d) Achilles' love.

3. In Part 4 of Iphigenia in Taurus, who says, "Stop, stranger! Take away your hands!"?
(a) The Chorus.
(b) Pylades.
(c) Orestes.
(d) Iphigenia.

4. When the Chorus begins speaking in the opening of Part 2, what type of sea do they describe?
(a) A raging sea.
(b) A cold sea.
(c) A blue sea.
(d) An unfriendly sea.

5. When Orestes and Iphigenia are discussing Hellas, Orestes tells Iphigenia that a particular person's end was terrible. Who is Orestes talking about?
(a) Electra.
(b) Menelaus.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Agamemnon.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the beginning of Part 3, who tells Iphigenia that they need no tears from her?

2. When Orestes asks Iphigenia if she actually sacrifices the victims, Iphigenia tells him that she does not, but that she purifies the victims. How does Iphigenia purify the sacrifice victims?

3. In Part 2 of Iphigenia in Taurus, Iphigenia tells the Chorus that she finds Artemis guilty of what?

4. Who enters as Iphigenia is speaking to the Chorus?

5. In Part 2, when Iphigenia speaks to the Chorus about her terrible past, whose lips does she say she would not kiss?

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