The Flies Quizzes

The Flies Quiz 1

1 Sartre is a pioneer of what philosophy?
Pragmatism

Structuralism

Existentialism

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

Franco-Prussian War

WWII

Napoleonic Wars
3 The play is meant to critique what?
Vichy France

German Jews

Hitler and the Nazis

Free France
4 The play is based on whose work?
Sophocles

Ovid

Aeschylus

Homer
5 What city is the play set in?
Corinth

Sparta

Athens

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

Athena

Zeus

Poseidon
7 With whom does Orestes travel to Argos?
His friend

His tutor

His physician

His bodyguard
8 What do Orestes and the tutor notice about Argos?
There are flies.

It is very hot.

Everyone is in black.

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

surrender

dead

living
10 Everyone in Argos is filled with ___.
greed

remorse

rage

lust
11 Who is Philebus?
The tutor

Orestes' pseudonym

A god

An Argive
12 Orestes laments the fact that he has no ___.
memories

money

lover

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

culture

wealth

many women
14 Orestes acknowledges that he has no memories but is ___.
powerful

free

rich

influential
15 The tutor admits he was afraid Orestes would ___.
try and usurp the throne

fall in love with an Argive woman and stay

kill Aegistheus

depart without coming to terms with his past
16 Electra curses ___.
Argos

the statue of Zeus

her mother

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

alive

clean

young
18 What is Electra's job?
A priestess

A servant

A princess

A nurse
19 Electra says she is waiting for ___.
a moment she can kill Aegistheus

her lover

her own death

her brother
20 Clytemnestra tells Electra she has to ___.
go confess her sins

leave the city

get ready for the ritual

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

Anger and despair

Public confession

Dance and song
22 Clytemnestra warns Electra that one day ___.
she will delight in remorse and regret

she will anger the gods

she will leave Argos forever

she will have her own inexpiable crime
23 What do the dead do?
Mingle among the living

Murder the living

Leave the city

Cry and sing
24 What does Clytemnestra tell Orestes/Philebus to do?
Come to the ritual

Leave the city

Leave Electra alone

Feel his own remorse
25 Zeus says that if Orestes stays, he will be Orestes' ___.
guide

tutor

brother

friend

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