Comparative Literature 2

The Oresteia (Aeschylus) vs The Flies (Sartre) • Enhanced MCQ Bank with Exam-Prediction Filters • 4th Year • Aleppo University

675 questions from all 10 lecture handouts • 5 complete photographed past papers • examiner: Mrs. Rana Doori

🎯 How to use this bank

Every question carries a prediction level — high, medium or low — and, where relevant, a ★ Exam ×N marker showing how many of the five past papers contained that item or the same idea.
Each page has a filter panel: filter by prediction level, by which play the item belongs to, by whether it has been seen before, or by keyword.
Quotation questions print the passage itself, because that is exactly how she sets them — one passage, then several linked questions on speaker, addressee, referent and source play.
Every page contains a collapsible examiner style profile: her six question moulds and the distractor tricks she uses.
Explanations carry an Exam trace line (where it was previously asked) and an Examiner trick line (what the item is designed to catch).
Revision order: filter to ★ Seen before first, then High, then work outwards.

📚 Simple Study Guide — English & Arabic • ملخص مبسّط بالعربية والإنكليزية

Every lecture in order, in simple language • the sequence of events step by step • the names • the comparisons and links • exam tips — side by side in both languages
كل محاضرة بتسلسلها • الأحداث خطوة بخطوة • الأسماء • المقارنات والربط • نصائح الامتحان — باللغتين جنباً إلى جنب

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Lecture 1 — Introduction & THE COMPARISON TABLE

The two plays • Helen, Troy, Iphigenia • Aeschylus' life and death • Sartre's life and politics • paganism vs existentialism • the full comparison table

81 questions 🔴 high-value ★ the table is quoted in all 4 papers

Lectures 2 & 3 — The Curse & Agamemnon begins

Tantalus → Pelops → Atreus & Thyestes • the cannibal banquet • the cast of Agamemnon • the family tree • the Watchman • the beacon • Artemis and Iphigenia • first quotation block

67 questions 🔴 family tree = most examined block ★ heavily traced

Lecture 4 — Agamemnon completed

The Herald • Menelaus lost at sea • the crimson tapestries and hubris • Apollo's curse on Cassandra • the prophecy scene • the three blows • Clytemnestra triumphant • Aegisthus the coward

49 questions 🟡 red carpet + Cassandra quoted

Lecture 5 — The Libation Bearers

Orestes & Pylades return • the lock of hair • Electra as slave • the snake dream • Cilissa and the disarmed Aegisthus • Pylades' one speech • the matricide • the Furies appear

54 questions 🔴 the play Sartre rewrote

Lecture 6 — The Eumenides

Unity of time but not place • the three settings • Clytemnestra's ghost • Apollo vs the Furies • Athena founds the court • the tied vote • the Furies become the Kindly Ones

51 questions 🔴 trial + deciding vote in every paper

Lecture 7 — The Flies, Act One

Sartre's life and philosophy • the second comparison table • Philebus & Demetrios • the statue of the god of flies and death • the flies as guilt • Dead Men's Day • Electra's refuse-offering

51 questions 🔴 the whole second half of the paper starts here

Lecture 8 — The Flies: Electra, the Ceremony, the White Dress

The princess who washes the royal underwear • the rough hands • Sartre's misogyny • Clytemnestra's warning • the cavern and the black stone • Aegistheus the Nazi • the dance • Zeus and the falling stone

53 questions 🔴 the white dress is asked in nearly every paper

Lecture 9 — The Flies completed

“I need an accomplice” • the too-light man • the tired tyrant • the secret of the gods • the murders • the Furies as goddesses of remorse • “I am my freedom” • the Pied Piper of Scyros

58 questions 🔴 densest quotation block in the course

Lecture 10 (FINAL) — The Study Guide

Author backgrounds • both plays analysed scene by scene • the eight comparison tables • key quotations • family tree • themes • full glossary

87 questions 🔴 HIGHEST YIELD IN THE COURSE ★ the paper is largely built from this file

🎤 The Speaker Drill

Who says it • whom they say it to • who “he / she / the queen” refers to • which play it comes from — both plays in order, built for the quotation block

124 questions 🔴 where the marks cluster

All Previous Exams — 5 papers, 250 questions • NEW paper added

Every question of all five photographed papers, transcribed complete — now including 1st Term 2025/2026, Model B • filter by paper, by recurrence, by play, by keyword • every printed key audited against the handouts

250 questions ★ the real thing — start here ⚠ 16 keys flagged • 3 now settled

⚡ The Complete Cheat Sheet

Quotation → speaker decoder • the play-swap table • god & character jobs • family tree • every examined number • her six traps • her 14 wrong answer keys • all 10 lecture digests • the eight comparison tables • prints to ~6 A4 pages

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