The Flies Quizzes

The Flies Quiz 1

1 Sartre is a pioneer of what philosophy?

Existentialism

Structuralism

Pragmatism

Skepticism
2 During what war was the play written and staged?

WWI

Franco-Prussian War

Napoleonic Wars

WWII
3 The play is meant to critique what?

Vichy France

Free France

German Jews

Hitler and the Nazis
4 The play is based on whose work?

Sophocles

Ovid

Homer

Aeschylus
5 What city is the play set in?

Argos

Sparta

Corinth

Athens
6 There is a statue of ___ in the Argos town square.

Poseidon

Ares

Zeus

Athena
7 With whom does Orestes travel to Argos?

His physician

His bodyguard

His friend

His tutor
8 What do Orestes and the tutor notice about Argos?

It is very hot.

There are flies.

Everyone is in black.

All of these
9 The city celebrates the day of the ___.

living

victory

surrender

dead
10 Everyone in Argos is filled with ___.

greed

remorse

rage

lust
11 Who is Philebus?

Orestes' pseudonym

An Argive

A god

The tutor
12 Orestes laments the fact that he has no ___.

lover

memories

money

learning
13 The tutor tries to remind Orestes of his ___.

culture

handsome looks

many women

wealth
14 Orestes acknowledges that he has no memories but is ___.

powerful

rich

influential

free
15 The tutor admits he was afraid Orestes would ___.

fall in love with an Argive woman and stay

try and usurp the throne

depart without coming to terms with his past

kill Aegistheus
16 Electra curses ___.

Argos

her mother

the statue of Zeus

Aegistheus
17 Electra brags to the statue that she is all of these things except ___.

young

smart

alive

clean
18 What is Electra's job?

A princess

A priestess

A nurse

A servant
19 Electra says she is waiting for ___.

her lover

a moment she can kill Aegistheus

her own death

her brother
20 Clytemnestra tells Electra she has to ___.

get ready for the ritual

leave the city

go confess her sins

go do her chores
21 Electra says what is Argos' national pastime?

Anger and despair

Dance and song

Public confession

Sport
22 Clytemnestra warns Electra that one day ___.

she will leave Argos forever

she will have her own inexpiable crime

she will anger the gods

she will delight in remorse and regret
23 What do the dead do?

Cry and sing

Mingle among the living

Murder the living

Leave the city
24 What does Clytemnestra tell Orestes/Philebus to do?

Feel his own remorse

Leave Electra alone

Come to the ritual

Leave the city
25 Zeus says that if Orestes stays, he will be Orestes' ___.

brother

guide

friend

tutor

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