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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Play 2, Part 2 (p 171-183).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Electra find when she wonders aloud if her brother has returned?
(a) A campfire.
(b) Offerings to the gods.
(c) Pylades' pack.
(d) Orestes and Pylades' footprints.

2. According to Clytemnestra's message to the herald, how has she kept her husband's house?
(a) Safe and welcoming upon his return.
(b) She has been overwhelmed by the responsibilities of it.
(c) As well as she could.
(d) She has given it over to someone else for safekeeping.

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

4. What does Orestes realize about his mother's dream?
(a) It prophesizes the death of Electra
(b) It prophesizes his failure in his revenge.
(c) It prophesizes his revenge against his mother.
(d) It prophesizes the murder of Clytemnestra by Aegisthus.

5. About whom does the chorus ask the herald for news?
(a) Chryseis.
(b) Menelaus.
(c) Paris.
(d) Hector.

Short Answer Questions

1. What interrupts the chorus's meditations on life at the end of the fourth part of "The Agamemnon"?

2. What happened to Clytemnestra in her dream when she tried to nurse what she'd been birthed?

3. According to Agamemnon, what kept him strong during the war?

4. What is the herald's opinion on Troy and Paris?

5. After Cassandra enters the castle and their monologue is interrupted, what dispute rises amongst the chorus?

(see the answer key)

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