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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If you aim too high, and miss the pleasures within your reach, the Chorus would consider you a what?
(a) Madman and rich.
(b) Madman and idiot.
(c) Madman and fool.
(d) Madman and philospher.

2. Where is Pentheus's mother at the beginning of the play?
(a) Traveling abroad.
(b) By herself in her rooms.
(c) With the other women.
(d) In the catacombs.

3. How does the servant who brings Dionysus in to Pentheus refer to Dionysus?
(a) As prey.
(b) As a slave.
(c) As a man.
(d) As a king.

4. The Chorus says that Dionysus makes his followers laugh away what?
(a) Differences between them.
(b) Life's troubles.
(c) Dull care.
(d) Small things.

5. What destroyed Dionysus's mother?
(a) A lightening strike.
(b) A lightening flash.
(c) A thunder strike.
(d) A thunder storm.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the Chorus, the end of all unbridled speech would bring what?

2. What story does Pentheus scoff at?

3. Pentheus accuses Tiresius of supporting Dionysus for what reasons?

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

5. The Chorus extolls the virtue of simple what?

(see the answer key)

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