The Bacchae Short Answer Test Questions

Short Answer Questions

Directions: Answer each question with the appropriate short response.

Short Answer Questions - Prologue

1. Who is Dionysus's father?

2. What is Semele?

3. Who does Dionysus address in the play's prologue?

4. Dionysus has taken what form so he can punish people?

5. Dionysus wants to punish people in Thebes for what?

6. What kind of relationship did Dionysus's father have with his mother?

7. Who is Hera?

8. What destroyed Dionysus's mother?

9. What body part kept Dionysus until he was born?

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

11. Who honors Dionysus's mother's burial site?

12. What did Dionysus cause to infect the women of Thebes?

13. At the beginning of the play, where are the women of...
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