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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the messenger finishes telling the Chorus about the two young men, what do they tell the messenger concerning the King?
(a) That the King is at a citizen's home.
(b) That the King is mourning.
(c) That the King has left the temple.
(d) That the King is inside the temple.

2. When Iphigenia tells King Thoas of the rituals she must perform on the sacrifices, what does she tell King Thoas is needful?
(a) Pain.
(b) Determination.
(c) Solitude.
(d) Prayer.

3. When Iphigenia is speaking to King Thoas about the young strangers in Part 5, what is the reason she tells King Thoas that she recognized the "stain" on them?
(a) Artemis whispered their wrongdoings to her.
(b) She could hear the Furies.
(c) She saw it in their eyes.
(d) The holy image turned away.

4. In Part 6, who says, "I never trust a word a woman says"?
(a) The messenger.
(b) Orestes.
(c) King Thoas.
(d) Pylades.

5. When Iphigenia is speaking to King Thoas, she tells him that the holy image of Artemis shrank backward. What does she tell King Thoas this event reveals to her?
(a) That it is unsafe to sacrifice these strangers.
(b) That the strangers are Gods.
(c) That Artemis does not want to sacrifice these men.
(d) That the strangers are tainted sacrifices.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the opening of Part 5 of Iphigenia of Taurus, which single person enters the scene?

2. In Part 4 of Iphigenia in Taurus, who says, "Stop, stranger! Take away your hands!"?

3. When Iphigenia is speaking with King Thoas about the image moving, she tells him that something else happened as well as the movement. What else does Iphigenia say happened with the image?

4. When Iphigenia is speaking to Orestes and Pylades in Part 4 about taking her message back home, who does Iphigenia tell Pylades saved her from her father's hand?

5. When Iphigenia enters the scene from the temple, where does she ask King Thoas to stand?

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