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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. At the beginning of the play, where are the women of Thebes?
(a) At the river.
(b) In the temple.
(c) Outside the city.
(d) In their homes.

3. According to the Chorus, where did Pentheus put his prisoner?
(a) A tower too high to climb.
(b) A gloomy dungeon.
(c) A stinky stable.
(d) A hole in the earth.

4. When the Chorus says "Like a colt that gambols at its mother's side," who are they saying is the colt?
(a) The Greeks.
(b) Dionysus.
(c) Pentheus.
(d) The worshipers of Dionysus.

5. Tiresius tells Pentheus not to rely on what, to dominate mankind?
(a) Force.
(b) Reason.
(c) Fear.
(d) Logic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the Bacchae?

2. Pentheus orders the capture of Dionysus and who?

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

4. The Chorus says that Dionysus makes his followers laugh away what?

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

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