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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Hippolytus": What action does Phaedra believe is better than doing wrong?
(a) Repenting.
(b) Committing suicide.
(c) Apologizing.
(d) Fighting.

2. "Andromache": Of what place is Menelaus king?
(a) Athens.
(b) Sparta.
(c) Delphi.
(d) Corinth.

3. "Medea": What does Medea need to find before she carries out her plans for Jason?
(a) A safe haven for her flight.
(b) Money to travel.
(c) A safe home for her children.
(d) A place to go.

4. "Alcestis": Pheres says that no man wishes to die. What does he suggest is better?
(a) For the servants to die.
(b) For the wife to die.
(c) For the childrento die.
(d) For the slaves to die.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. "Medea": Whom does Medea kill?

2. "Medea": Of what besides deceit does Medea accuse Jason?

3. "Hippolytus": Why is Aphrodite angry with Hippolytus?

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

5. "Ion": Which goddess appears to tell how Ion's descendants will settle many parts of Greece ?

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