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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "The Bacchants": What is Tiresias's job?
(a) Priest.
(b) Academic.
(c) Prophet.
(d) Teacher.

2. "Electra": Where is Orestes going to be tried and acquitted?
(a) Delphi.
(b) Syracuse.
(c) Thessalia.
(d) Athens.

3. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Which goddess does Iphigenia serve?
(a) Athena.
(b) Artemis.
(c) Demeter.
(d) Aphrodite.

4. "Iphigenia at Aulis": What is Iphigenia doing while pleading with Agamemnon not to sacrifice her?
(a) Praying.
(b) Weeping.
(c) She is not pleading.
(d) Kneeling.

5. "Trojan Women": The goddess has decided to attack her former allies, the Greeks, because they have done violence to whom?
(a) Some of her children.
(b) Her sisters.
(c) The women.
(d) Some of her servants.

Short Answer Questions

1. "The Bacchants": What is the name of the special staff that followers of Dionysus carry?

2. "Trojan Women": With which Greek man does Hecuba go?

3. "Iphigenia at Aulis": Where does Agamemnon put his family when they arrive?

4. "Iphigenia at Aulis": Who is Helen's Greek husband?

5. "Iphigenia among Taurians": What rank does Iphigenia hold as a priestess?

Short Essay Questions

1. "Trojan Women": Why is Hecuba upset about Agamemnon taking Cassandra?

2. "Trojan Women": What does Cassandra tell Hecuba after her prediction about Agamemnon?

3. "Trojan Women": Why is Hecuba enraged about being Odysseus's slave?

4. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Who is Iphigenia?

5. "Iphigenia among Taurians": How does Iphigenia get the idol to the ship?

6. "Trojan Women": What does Cassandra predict as the fate of Agamemnon?

7. "Electra": What do Castor and Pollux tell Orestes and Electra?

8. "The Bacchants": After the stranger escapes from jail, what tale does the herdsman tell Pentheus?

9. "Iphigenia at Aulis": What happens when Iphigenia is sacrificed?

10. "The Bacchants": Why has Pentheus jailed several of the bacchants?

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