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

2. What does Orestes pray for at the beginning of "The Libation Bearers"?
(a) Peace of mind.
(b) Success in his plan of revenge for his father's murder.
(c) Safe voyage overseas.
(d) His success in war.

3. What does Pylades advise Orestes to do?
(a) Orestes will be murdered by Clytemnestra if he does not kill her first.
(b) The oracle said Orestes must kill his mother.
(c) Orestes will be looked upon as weak if he does not kill Clytemnestra.
(d) Electra will be cursed if Orestes does not follow through with his revenge.

4. What is revealed with Orestes in the fourth part of "The Libation Bearers"?
(a) Electra's body.
(b) Cilissa's body.
(c) Aegisthus's body.
(d) His father's armor.

5. While mourning her father at his grave, what does Electra pray for the most?
(a) Her mother's forgiveness.
(b) Her brother's return.
(c) The death of Aegisthus.
(d) Menelaus's vengeance on Cltemnestra.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Agamemnon make his entrance?

2. What does Orestes wonder about Aegisthus after he has murdered his mother?

3. What is the question on the chorus's mind after Orestes flees the palace?

4. According to Agamemnon, what was the cause of Troy's being "ground into dust?"

5. To whom does Electra pray while at Agamemnon's tomb?

(see the answer key)

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