Chapter 18 Questions

Question 1

What god or goddess was the only one not to refuse the banquet of Tantalus? 
A. Poseidon 
B. Apollo 
C. Demeter 
D. Athena

Answer 1

C. Demeter (446)

Question 2

Whom did Electra eventually marry? 
A. Pylades 
B. Neoptolemus 
C. Tisamenus 
D. Strophius

Answer 2

A. Pylades (454)

Question 3

In which version is Electra married off to a peasant? 
A. Aeschylus' Libation Bearers 
B. Euripides' Electra 
C. Aeschylus' Eumenides 
D. Sophocles' Electra

Answer 3

B. Euripides’ Electra (465)

Question 4

Who became king in place of Oenomaüs? 
A. Thyestes 
B. Tantalus 
C. Atreus 
D. Pelops

Answer 4

D. Pelops (447)

Question 5

In what play does Orestes discover his sister Iphigenia alive and  a priestess of Artemis? 
A. Iphigenia in Aulis 
B. Eumenides 
C. Iphigenia in Tauris 
D. Oresteia

Answer 5

C. Iphigenia in Tauris (452)

Question 6

Who was the charioteer bribed by Pelops? 
A. Aegisthus 
B. Myrtilus 
C. Tantalus 
D. Oenomaüs

Answer 6

B. Myrtilus (447)

Question 7

How did Atreus perpetuate the curse of his house?
A. He seduced the wife of Thyestes.
B. He tried to feed the gods human flesh.
C. He cast Myrtilus over a cliff.
D. He fed his brother his own children.

Answer 7

D. He fed his brother his own children. (448)

Question 8

Agamemnon incurred the bitter hatred of his wife by:
A. bringing home a Trojan woman
B. insulting her sister Helen
C. sacrificing their daughter Iphigenia
D. leading the ten-year expedition against Troy

Answer 8

C. sacrificing their daughter Iphigenia (449)

Question 9

The father of Aegisthus was: 
A. Pelops 
B. Atreus 
C. Tantalus 
D. Thyestes

Answer 9

D. Thyestes (449)

Question 10

The man who had an affair with Agamemnon's wife and then helped kill Agamemnon was: 
A. Aegisthus 
B. Pelops 
C. Zethus 
D. Orestes

Answer 10

A. Aegisthus (449)

Question 11

The prisoner Agamemnon took home from the Trojan War was: 
A. Hecuba 
B. Helen 
C. Cassandra 
D. Briseïs

Answer 11

C. Cassandra (449)

Question 12

By which of the following is Orestes not given direct assistance? 
A. Athena 
B. Apollo 
C. Electra 
D. Zeus

Answer 12

D. Zeus (451)

Question 13

Who wrote Iphigenia in Tauris, in which we find Iphigenia a priestess of Artemis? 
A. Aeschylus 
B. Ovid 
C. Euripides 
D. Sophocles

Answer 13

C. Euripides (452)

Question 14

At the end of Aeschylus' Oresteia, the Furies are transformed into: 
A. judge and jury 
B. the Eumenides 
C. the Erinyes 
D. the Avenging Spirits

Answer 14

B. the Eumenides (451)

Question 15

According to Homer, where did Agamemnon and Menelaüs rule?
A. Agamemnon at Sparta and Menelaüs at Mycenae
B. Agamemnon at Thebes and Menelaüs at Corinth
C. Agamemnon at Mycenae and Menelaüs at Corinth
D. Agamemnon at Mycenae and Menelaüs at Sparta

Answer 15

D. Agamemnon at Mycenae and Menelaüs at Sparta (449; 453)

Question 16

Who served his son as food for the gods at a banquet? 
A. Ixion 
B. Sisyphus 
C. Tantalus 
D. Tityus

Answer 16

C. Tantalus (445)

Question 17

In what play does the murder of Aegisthus follow that of Clytemnestra? 
A. Aeschlylus' Libation Bearers 
B. Euripides' Electra 
C. Sophocles' Electra 
D. Aeschylus' Eumenides

Answer 17

C. Sophocles’ Electra (463)

Question 18

Who appears at the end of Euripides' Electra to predict the future course of events? 
A. the Dioscuri 
B. Apollo 
C. Athena 
D. Cassandra

Answer 18

A. the Dioscuri (472)

Question 19

In Aeschylus' Libation Bearers, who speaks the words that drive Orestes to his final purpose, the murder of his mother? 
A. Electra 
B. Cilissa 
C. Chrysothemis 
D. Pylades

Answer 19

D. Pylades (457)

Question 20

In what city is Orestes' guilt finally expunged? 
A. Athens 
B. Mycenae 
C. Thebes 
D. Corinth

Answer 20

A. Athens (451)