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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Fifth Episode.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the Parodos?
(a) A hymn of longing.
(b) A hymn of praise.
(c) A hymn of lament.
(d) A hymn of desire.

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

4. When Pentheus leaves the palace, what is he dressed as?
(a) A commoner.
(b) A bacchant.
(c) A shepherd.
(d) A farmer.

5. What is Semele?
(a) A spirit.
(b) A goddess.
(c) A mortal.
(d) A nymph.

Short Answer Questions

1. On which mountain do the Pierian Muses have their "haunt most fair?"

2. What does the Chorus predict that Agave will say Pentheus was born from?

3. Who ripped Pentheus apart?

4. What is the Chorus praying for in the second ode?

5. Pentheus says that "women must not be mastered" by what?

(see the answer key)

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