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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Chorus praying for in the second ode?
(a) The release of the women.
(b) The intervention of Zeus.
(c) The release of their cult leader.
(d) The intervention of Dionysus.

2. When the Chorus says, "'Tis a noble enterprise to dabble the hand in the blood of a son till it drips," how are they speaking?
(a) Happily.
(b) Ironically.
(c) Harshly.
(d) Truthfully.

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

4. What did Dionysus raise "twixt heaven and earth" when he spoke from heaven?
(a) A cloud.
(b) A waterfall.
(c) A darkness.
(d) A column of flame.

5. How does the Chorus think that a mortal man should "live out his day and night?"
(a) In purity and holiness.
(b) In happiness and lust.
(c) In prayer and song.
(d) In sadness and sorrow.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Hera?

2. Why did Pentheus "fall fainting?"

3. What does Agave feel when she realizes what she is carrying in her hands?

4. What does Tiresius suffer from?

5. What does Dionysus ask the Chorus to "abandon" Pentheus's halls to?

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