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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What story does Pentheus scoff at?
(a) Dionysus's birth.
(b) Dionysus's life.
(c) Dionysus's travels.
(d) Dionysus's prophet.

2. What "enriches with his waters a fair land of steeds?"
(a) The father of rivers.
(b) The father of sprinklers.
(c) The father of streams.
(d) The father of irrigation.

3. What is the Chorus celebrating in the fifth ode?
(a) Dionysus's revenge.
(b) Pentheus's revenge.
(c) Dionysus's downfall.
(d) Pentheus's downfall.

4. How does the Chorus function, in relation to Dionysus, in the fifth ode?
(a) As a conscience to Dionysus.
(b) As an extension of Dionysus.
(c) As a sister to Dionysus.
(d) As a distinct being, different from Dionysus.

5. 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 fool.
(c) Madman and idiot.
(d) Madman and philospher.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Thebes?

2. The Chorus asks Dionysus to lead them places and act as their what?

3. What does Pentheus hope to do when he leaves the palace in disguise?

4. What describes the stories that Pentheus shares about the women and their worship of Dionysus?

5. Who is Dionysus's father?

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