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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Play 3, Part 1 (p. 199-205).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Clytemnestra grieve after the false news of her son's death?
(a) She regrets her treatment of Electra.
(b) Orestes was the only child she loved.
(c) She regrets banishing him..
(d) Orestes is the only hope of breaking the family curse.

2. What do the Furies complain about when they awaken in the beginning of "The Eumenides"?
(a) Orestes.
(b) The younger gods.
(c) The Ancients.
(d) The elder gods.

3. What advice does Electra ask of the chorus while at her father's tomb?
(a) She is unsure of whether to mourn her father.
(b) She is unsure of where to go when she runs away.
(c) She is unsure of how to pray.
(d) She is unsure if she is truly her father's daughter.

4. Who accompanies Orestes to Agamemnon's tomb in the beginning of the second play?
(a) Odysseus.
(b) Pylades.
(c) Menelaus.
(d) An oracle.

5. What does Orestes wonder about Aegisthus after he has murdered his mother?
(a) He wonders if Aegisthus was truly guilty.
(b) He wonders if Aegisthus was repenting his sins in the last moments of his life.
(c) He wonders if Aegisthus suffered during his death.
(d) He wonders if Aegisthus is receiving an adulterer's punishment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What confuses Orestes about Clytemnestra's orders for the tomb?

2. Why does Agamemnon walk inside his palace the way he does?

3. Whom did Clytemnestra send into exile?

4. According to Clytemnestra's message to the herald, how has she kept her husband's house?

5. For what does Clytemnestra scold the chorus in the second part of the first play?

(see the answer key)

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