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The Oresteia: Agamemnon Plot Summary

The Oresteia: Agamemnon Plot Summary

Assessment

Passage

History

University

Practice Problem

Hard

Created by

Kulminder Singh

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30 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which work is introduced as a trilogy that includes Agamemnon and focuses on Agamemnon, his wife Clytemnestra, and their children Orestes and Electra?

The Iliad

The Oresteia

The Odyssey

The Aeneid

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

According to the summary, what act by Agamemnon motivates Clytemnestra’s desire for revenge?

Abandoning Troy during the war

Stealing the Golden Fleece

Sacrificing their daughter Iphigenia

Refusing to honor Zeus

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What role does the Chorus primarily serve at the beginning of Agamemnon as described in the material?

They plan the assassination of Agamemnon

They provide comic relief through jokes

They offer foreboding and recount background such as the prophecy and the history of the Trojan War

They announce the winners of athletic games

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which goddess forced Agamemnon to sacrifice Iphigenia after he killed a sacred deer?

Athena

Hera

Artemis

Aphrodite

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In the account of the Judgment of Paris presented here, what does Aphrodite promise Paris?

Victory in battle

Riches and power over Troy

The most beautiful woman in the world

Immortality

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why does Clytemnestra say she has extended thanks to the gods and laid rich tapestries for Agamemnon?

To honor his triumph while concealing her resentment over Iphigenia’s sacrifice

To appease Apollo for Cassandra’s curse

To celebrate Paris’s defeat in single combat

To persuade Odysseus to return home

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What fate does Cassandra foresee for herself and Agamemnon upon arriving at the palace?

Both will be welcomed and live in peace

Agamemnon will be exiled and Cassandra will rule

Both will be killed, with Cassandra acknowledging her impending death

Cassandra will escape to Troy while Agamemnon is crowned king

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