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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Bacchae, pages 200-220.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Eteocles ask Creon to speak to of the coming war?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Menoeceus.
(c) Pylades.
(d) Teiresius.

2. Who does Electra say would recognize her brother if he saw him?
(a) Her father's servant.
(b) Iphegenia.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her mother.

3. Polyneices, with his last breath, begs for what?
(a) To be buried in Argos.
(b) To be buried in Athens.
(c) To be buried in Thebes.
(d) For his wife to be queen.

4. Who walks around Orestes looking at him in the cottage?
(a) The servant.
(b) Jocasta.
(c) Aegisthus.
(d) Electra.

5. Who invites the messengers into the cottage?
(a) Clytemnestra.
(b) Electra.
(c) The farmer.
(d) Aegisthus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Polyneices pray to for victory in the duel?

2. Eteocles decrees anyone who buries his brother in Thebes be what?

3. Coryphaeus counters to the messenger who chides her for praising Dionysus that she is not _____ and follows her god.

4. Who is killed by stones dropped from the wall in the battle in The Phoenician Women?

5. What god does the chorus bemoan in the last half of The Phoenician Women?

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