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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "The Bacchants": What tells the women to burn down the house of Pentheus?
(a) A nymph.
(b) A lightning bolt.
(c) A moonbeam.
(d) A thunderbolt.

2. "Medea": What has Aegeus been consulting with the oracle to discover?
(a) How he can kill Creon.
(b) How he can live as a king.
(c) How he can get to Jason.
(d) How he can get children.

3. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Where does Iphigenia think her brother is when she is going to release one of the men to take a message to him?
(a) Troy.
(b) Hellaus.
(c) Argos.
(d) Garter.

4. "Electra": When did Orestes and his friend Pylades flee from Aegisthus?
(a) A season ago.
(b) Long ago.
(c) A few moons ago.
(d) A short time ago.

5. "Hippolytus": Hippolytus's father is in exile to pay penance for a crime committed where?
(a) In Macedonia.
(b) In Sparta.
(c) In Sicily.
(d) In Athens.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Electra":, Why has Electra's husband not slept with her?

2. "Ion": Who tries to get Creusa to kill Xuthus and Ion?

3. "The Bacchants": Who has not respected his Bacchic rites?

4. "Hippolytus": After Hippolytus dies, what does Theseus tell the chorus that he was?

5. "Alcestis": Who agrees to die in place of Admetus?

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