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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What streams did the messenger cross once outside of Thebes?
(a) Glopus.
(b) Asopus.
(c) Diasopus.
(d) Trianaopus.

2. What rises from the site of Dionysus's mother's death?
(a) A vine.
(b) Smoke.
(c) A mountain.
(d) A tree.

3. Who struck Pentheus after his mother?
(a) Pentheus's daughter.
(b) Cadmus's daughter.
(c) Pentheus's wife.
(d) Cadmus's wife.

4. The Chorus extolls the virtue of simple what?
(a) Speaking.
(b) Dress.
(c) Living.
(d) Eating.

5. According to the soldier when he brings Dionysus, what happened to the women in their prison?
(a) They are not eating.
(b) They are dead.
(c) They are sleeping.
(d) They are free.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the Bacchae?

2. What do the worshipers of Dionysus dress in?

3. According to the Chorus, when is it right to override the laws of custom?

4. Where is Pentheus's mother at the beginning of the play?

5. Who is the Chorus referring to when they say "earth-born?"

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