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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Exodos.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Tiresius and Cadmus wearing?
(a) Cow skins.
(b) Sheep skins.
(c) Fawn skins.
(d) Deer skins.

2. What does Pentheus hope to do when he leaves the palace in disguise?
(a) Spy on the women.
(b) Leave the city.
(c) Retrieve his mother.
(d) Find Dionysus.

3. On which mountain do the Pierian Muses have their "haunt most fair?"
(a) Mt. Oppilos.
(b) Mt. Othella.
(c) Mt. Olympus.
(d) Mt. Olives.

4. What place does the Chorus call the "haunt of beasts?"
(a) Thames.
(b) Corus.
(c) Earth.
(d) Nysa.

5. Pentheus says that he will do what to the women he has captured?
(a) Sell them as slaves.
(b) Keep them in the prison.
(c) Return them to their families.
(d) Make them his mistresses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Chorus predict that Agave will say Pentheus was born from?

2. Where does the first messenger say he comes from?

3. Tiresius says that failing to give honor where honor is due is what?

4. When Pentheus leaves the palace, what is he dressed as?

5. What rises from the site of Dionysus's mother's death?

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