View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Pentheus is obsessed with what aspect of the women's behavior?
(a) Their childish behavior.
(b) Their honest behavior.
(c) Their prayerful behavior.
(d) Their sexual behavior.

2. How does the Chorus think that a mortal man should "live out his day and night?"
(a) In prayer and song.
(b) In happiness and lust.
(c) In sadness and sorrow.
(d) In purity and holiness.

3. When Dionysus speaks to Pentheus for the first time, Dionysus says that all foreigners celebrate his mysteries with what?
(a) Dances.
(b) Feasts.
(c) Parties.
(d) Festivals.

4. When Dionysus was born, he was crowned with a coronal of what?
(a) Grapes.
(b) Snakes.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Ivy.

5. What streams did the messenger cross once outside of Thebes?
(a) Glopus.
(b) Trianaopus.
(c) Asopus.
(d) Diasopus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Pentheus want the women to spin at the loom?

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

3. What are Tiresius and Cadmus wearing on their heads?

4. According to the Chorus, where did Pentheus put his prisoner?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 230 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample