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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 did the women use to get the blood from the cattle off themselves?
(a) Herbs.
(b) Water.
(c) Moonlight.
(d) Wine.

2. "Iphigenia at Aulis": What is the name of Agamemnon's wife?
(a) Cassandra.
(b) Clytemnestra.
(c) Chamomilia.
(d) Carmina.

3. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Whom did Iphigenia's father tell her she was going to marry?
(a) Achilles.
(b) Pylades.
(c) Odysseus.
(d) Ajax.

4. "Iphigenia at Aulis": If Agamemnon calls off the sacrifice, who will do it?
(a) Creon.
(b) Odysseus.
(c) Pylades.
(d) Achilles.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. "The Bacchants": What is the clothing of followers of Dionysus?

2. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Of what crime does Iphigenia plan to claim the two men are guilty making them unclean?

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

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

5. "Iphigenia at Aulis": Who does Agamemnon claim will rise up against him if he does not sacrifice Iphigenia?

Short Essay Questions

1. "Electra": When Electra meets her brother and thinks he is a messenger, what does she tell him?

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

3. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Why does Iphigenia think human sacrifice is practiced in Taurus?

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

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

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

7. "Electra": Why has the peasant not slept with Electra?

8. "Iphigenia among Taurians": What dream does Iphigenia have at the beginning of the play?

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

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

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