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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. How are Apollo and Artemis related?
(a) Artemis is Apollo's mother.
(b) Artemis is Apollo's grandmother.
(c) Artemis is Apollo's aunt.
(d) Artemis is Apollo's sister.

2. Why did the king of Taurus receive his particular name?
(a) For his great wisdom.
(b) Because of his wealth.
(c) For the quickness of his sword.
(d) For the wing-like swiftness of his feet.

3. In Part 1 of Iphigenia in Taurus, Orestes states that people claim that something fell from the sky into the temple. What was this item that fell from the sky?
(a) A magic sword.
(b) The statue of Artemis.
(c) Powerful armor.
(d) Iphigenia.

4. When Iphigenia is telling the Chorus about her terrible past, she mentions that she would not hold who?
(a) Her brother, Orestes.
(b) Her father, Agamemnon.
(c) Her betrothed, Achilles.
(d) Her sister, Electra.

5. In Part 3, what does Iphigenia suggest will happen to Orestes' friend, Pylades, if she sets Orestes free to deliver a letter to Argos?
(a) She will still sacrifice Pylades.
(b) She will set him free.
(c) She will hide him and then help him escape.
(d) She will marry him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character from the story enters first in Part 1?

2. In Part 3 of Iphigenia in Taurus, what does Orestes claim is as chaotic as the mortal world?

3. When Iphigenia starts asking Orestes many questions in Part 3, Orestes finally asks her why she is so interested in Hellas. What is Iphigenia's reply to Orestes' question?

4. Who does the Herdsman consider a suitable victim and pleasing sacrifice for Artemis?

5. When Orestes and Iphigenia are speaking of Orestes being sacrificed, Iphigenia tells Orestes that she will use what to quench his ashes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What plan does Iphigenia devise to make sure her message gets to its destination if the letter is lost or taken?

2. What does Iphigenia promise she will do after Orestes has been sacrificed?

3. When Orestes is trying to prove to Iphigenia that he is her brother, what story does he claim Iphigenia wove in her loom?

4. When the messenger enters the scene in Part 6 of Iphigenia in Taurus, he ignores the Chorus and eagerly seeks out King Thoas. Why does he do this?

5. In Part 5 of Iphigenia in Taurus, Iphigenia relates a story to King Thoas concerning the image of Artemis. What does she tell King Thoas about?

6. In Part 1, what does Iphigenia claim her father vowed to Artemis?

7. In Part 3, what does Orestes refuse to tell Iphigenia, and why?

8. In the opening of Part 1 of Iphigenia in Taurus, what does Iphigenia first begin telling us?

9. In Part 6 of Iphigenia in Taurus, why does the messenger not leave when the Chorus tells him that the King is not there at the temple?

10. What is Iphigenia's reaction when she finds out that her mother killed her father?

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