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

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. Wildness and _________ are synonymous with the worship of Dionysus.
(a) Holiness.
(b) Steadiness.
(c) Stoicness.
(d) Calmness.

3. What do the worshipers of Dionysus dress in?
(a) Leaves and branches.
(b) Simple clothes.
(c) Animal skins.
(d) Robes of purple.

4. Who is Dionysus's father?
(a) Pluto.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Mars.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the soldier ashamed to bring Dionysus to Pentheus?

2. Who used his lute to gather trees to his ministry?

3. Pentheus holds what title?

4. When the Chorus says "Like a colt that gambols at its mother's side," who are they saying is the colt?

5. What instrument does the Chorus say Dionysus can "wake?"

(see the answer key)

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