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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of relationship did Dionysus's father have with his mother?
(a) An affair.
(b) A marriage.
(c) A ritual.
(d) A fling.

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

3. How many suns does Pentheus see when he comes out in his disguise?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) None - it is night.

4. The Chorus says that true wisdom, as granted by the heavens to the mortals, is to gain mastery over what?
(a) A fallen foe.
(b) Other men.
(c) The wilderness.
(d) The beasts of the field.

5. Pentheus is obsessed with what aspect of the women's behavior?
(a) Their honest behavior.
(b) Their childish behavior.
(c) Their sexual behavior.
(d) Their prayerful behavior.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pentheus orders the capture of Dionysus and who?

2. According to the Chorus, who was "sprung of a dragon of old?"

3. Tiresius tells Pentheus that the story of Dionysus is a what?

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

5. According to the Chorus, who dwells on Cyprus?

(see the answer key)

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