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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Play 2, Part 4 (9.190-196).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Orestes remind his mother of when she pleads for her life?
(a) His love for her.
(b) Electra's inability to mourn for her father.
(c) Her sins.
(d) The gods' will.

2. How does Clytemnestra plead for her life to Orestes?
(a) She tells him Iphigenia pleaded for her life before being sacrificed.
(b) She reminds Orestes that she is his mother.
(c) She tells Orestes she was ordered by Zeus to kill Agamemnon.
(d) She reminds him that Electra will be motherless.

3. What feelings suddenly strike the chorus after Agamemnon enters his palace?
(a) They have feelings of sickness.
(b) They have feelings of hysteria.
(c) They have feelings of joy.
(d) They have feelings of foreboding.

4. Who comprises the group of women at Agamemnon's tomb?
(a) Family servants who have been with them for years.
(b) Priestesses of Apollo.
(c) Female Trojans whom Agamemnon took prisoner.
(d) Amazons.

5. According to the chorus of women, what will atone for the murder of Agamemnon?
(a) Electra giving herself over to the gods.
(b) Clytemnestra's resignation of the throne.
(c) A blood sacrifice.
(d) An apology.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what does the leader of the chorus praise Agamemnon upon his return?

2. What reasoning did Clytemnestra give for exiling a certain person before the events of "The Agamemnon"?

3. What do the female attendants lay on the ground for Agamemnon to walk upon?

4. What does Orestes believe about the vision he is having at the end of "The Libation Bearers"?

5. Whom did Clytemnestra send into exile?

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