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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Because of what happened to the women, the soldier thinks that Dionysus causes what?
(a) Coincidences.
(b) Surprises.
(c) Miracles.
(d) Nothing.

2. After Cadmus and Tiresius talk to Pentheus, what does the Chorus call Pentheus?
(a) A miser.
(b) A dead man.
(c) A blasphemer.
(d) A fool.

3. According to the Chorus, who was "sprung of a dragon of old?"
(a) Cadmus.
(b) Tiberius.
(c) Pentheus.
(d) Dionysus.

4. Who used his lute to gather trees to his ministry?
(a) Orpheus.
(b) Odyssyus.
(c) Oedepus.
(d) Othello.

5. Who honors Dionysus's mother's burial site?
(a) Her son.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her uncle.
(d) Her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pentheus says that he will do what to the women he has captured?

2. According to the Chorus, what is hateful to Dionysus?

3. What "enriches with his waters a fair land of steeds?"

4. Pentheus is obsessed with what aspect of the women's behavior?

5. The Chorus says, "What ______ ______ the earth-born race displays."

(see the answer key)

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