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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Orestes and Iphigenia are working out a plan to deliver the letter in Part 4 of Iphigenia in Taurus, who does Orestes ask Iphigenia about, wondering if they will consent to letting Pylades go?
(a) Artemis.
(b) The Chorus.
(c) The Taurian King.
(d) The guards.

2. When does Pylades suggest that he and Orestes retrieve the item they are looking for in Taurus?
(a) Noon.
(b) In the night.
(c) Mid-morning.
(d) At the break of dawn.

3. When King Thoas learns what the young strangers have done, who does he claim would recoil from that type of action?
(a) Death.
(b) A monstrous heathen.
(c) A savage.
(d) Artemis.

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

5. When Iphigenia arrived in Taurus, what was her appointed job in the temple?
(a) Priestess.
(b) Attendant.
(c) Servant.
(d) Guard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Iphigenia tell King Thoas he must do when the men come from the temple?

2. In Part 4 when Orestes and Iphigenia are planning their escape, Orestes states that night is for thieves, but what does he say daylight is for?

3. What two things does the Herdsman tell Iphigenia to get ready for the young men to be sacrificed?

4. Where does Pylades suggest that he and Orestes hide so that they are not captured?

5. Iphigenia tells King Thoas in Part 5 that the citizens must do what during the purification ritual?

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