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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": How does Pentheus disguise himself to go view the rites on the hill?
(a) As a woman.
(b) As a herdsman.
(c) As a commoner.
(d) As a shepherd.

2. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Of what crime does Iphigenia plan to claim the two men are guilty making them unclean?
(a) Fratricide.
(b) Matricide.
(c) Patricide.
(d) Homicide.

3. "Iphigenia at Aulis": What did Agamemnon do that upsets Achilles?
(a) Used his name without permission.
(b) Lied to his daughter.
(c) Promised he would be married.
(d) Took the sacrifice away.

4. "Electra": What does the king want the entrails of the animal for?
(a) Reading his fortune.
(b) A sign he made a sacrifice.
(c) Decoration.
(d) Eating.

5. "Electra": Where does Orestes plans to ambush the king?
(a) Outside the city.
(b) At the stables.
(c) Outside the temple.
(d) Outside his palace.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Iphigenia was intended to be a sacrifice but was spirited away to where?

2. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Who tells Iphigenia that there are two strangers in their land?

3. "The Bacchants": What is Tiresias's main characteristic?

4. "Iphigenia at Aulis" begins with a speech that has been what?

5. "The Bacchants": What is Pentheus's role?

Short Essay Questions

1. "Trojan Women": What does Hecuba tell Menelaus?

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

3. "Electra": Why does the king ask Orestes to kill the bull?

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

5. "Electra": Why has Aegisthus married Electra to a peasant?

6. "The Bacchants": What do Cadmus and Tiresias discuss on their way to the bacchanal celebration?

7. "Electra": What is the plan the tutor and Orestes make to kill Aegisthus?

8. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Why are Orestes and Pylades in Taurus?

9. "Trojan Women": Why has Athena decided to attack her former allies?

10. "The Bacchants": Why does Dionysus plot against the Thebans?

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