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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where has the cult that is in Thebes come from?
(a) Sparta.
(b) Persia.
(c) Athens.
(d) England.

2. What story does Pentheus scoff at?
(a) Dionysus's life.
(b) Dionysus's prophet.
(c) Dionysus's travels.
(d) Dionysus's birth.

3. Pentheus is disturbed by the conversation with Cadmus and Tiresius and orders the destruction of Tiresius's what?
(a) Stable.
(b) Home.
(c) Temple.
(d) Seat.

4. In the Chorus's first lines, they believe that a happy man is one who leads what kind of life?
(a) Rich.
(b) Magestic.
(c) Holy.
(d) Powerful.

5. When the Chorus says "Like a colt that gambols at its mother's side," who are they saying is the colt?
(a) The Greeks.
(b) Dionysus.
(c) Pentheus.
(d) The worshipers of Dionysus.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Chorus, in the Parodos, describes the joy of worship with what?

2. Who used his lute to gather trees to his ministry?

3. When the Chorus says that there are a "myriad of hopes for all the myriad minds," what does myriad mean?

4. When Pentheus orders Dionysus locked up, who does he think Dionysus is?

5. Cadmus tells Pentheus that if he would call Dionysus a god, it would do what?

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