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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who brings the news that Pentheus is dead?
(a) The fifth messenger.
(b) The second messenger.
(c) The fourth messenger.
(d) The third messenger.

2. The Chorus extolls the virtue of simple what?
(a) Dress.
(b) Eating.
(c) Living.
(d) Speaking.

3. What "enriches with his waters a fair land of steeds?"
(a) The father of sprinklers.
(b) The father of streams.
(c) The father of irrigation.
(d) The father of rivers.

4. The Chorus says, "I envy not deep _______."
(a) Cares.
(b) Worries.
(c) Subtleties.
(d) Intent.

5. The first messenger reports that when they tried to bring Pentheus's mother back from the group of women, the women went mad and destroyed what?
(a) A herd of sheep.
(b) A herd of cattle.
(c) A town of men.
(d) A flock of birds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of relationship did Dionysus's father have with his mother?

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

3. Who is the writer of this play?

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

5. What destroyed Dionysus's mother?

(see the answer key)

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