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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Third Choral Ode.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Chorus shares the belief of Tiresius and Cadmus that to honor the divine is what?
(a) Common sense.
(b) A tradition.
(c) A waste of time.
(d) Only for the rich.

2. How does Tiresius respond to Pentheus's order to destroy his property?
(a) With pity.
(b) With rage.
(c) With fear.
(d) With anger.

3. What are Tiresius and Cadmus planning on doing?
(a) Pretending to be women.
(b) Partying with the women.
(c) Honoring Dionysus.
(d) Praying to Dionysus in the temple.

4. Who used his lute to gather trees to his ministry?
(a) Odyssyus.
(b) Orpheus.
(c) Othello.
(d) Oedepus.

5. When the Chorus says, "Will this white-foot e'er join the night long dance," who is the white-foot they are referring to?
(a) Cadmus.
(b) Thebes.
(c) Tiberius.
(d) Pentheus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What place does the Chorus call the "haunt of beasts?"

2. In the Chorus's first lines, they believe that a happy man is one who leads what kind of life?

3. When Dionysus speaks to Pentheus for the first time, Dionysus says that all foreigners celebrate his mysteries with what?

4. The Chorus says that although divine power is slow, it will punish who?

5. According to the soldier when he brings Dionysus, what happened to the women in their prison?

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