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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Bacchae, pages 179-200.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Electra chide her husband for after the messenger has appeared?
(a) Abusing her.
(b) Mistrusting her.
(c) Raping her.
(d) Not feeding her.

2. What is the notable structure seen in the setting of The Bacchae?
(a) A smoking tomb.
(b) A statue.
(c) Apollo's altar.
(d) Dionysus' altar.

3. Who is Agamemnon's son?
(a) Dioscuri.
(b) Oedipus.
(c) Pylades.
(d) Orestes.

4. Who has Agamemnon brought back as a concubine from the war?
(a) Antigone.
(b) Clytemnestra.
(c) Cassandra.
(d) Iphegenia.

5. Who comes to tell Pentheus of the women performing miracles on the mountain?
(a) Teiresius.
(b) A herdsman.
(c) Agave.
(d) Dionysus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who adamantly does NOT worship Dionysus in The Bacchae?

2. What has Orestes returned to do in Electra?

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

4. Who is the current ruler of Thebes in The Bacchae?

5. Who has a plan for how to kill Clytemnestra?

(see the answer key)

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