The Bacchae Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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The Bacchae Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the writer of this play?
(a) Sophecles.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Euripides.
(d) Plato.

2. What is the Axius?
(a) A stream.
(b) A river.
(c) A sea.
(d) An ocean.

3. What are Tiresius and Cadmus planning on doing?
(a) Honoring Dionysus.
(b) Pretending to be women.
(c) Praying to Dionysus in the temple.
(d) Partying with the women.

4. When Dionysus says, multiple times, that the god is before Pentheus, what is Pentheus' reaction?
(a) He is awed.
(b) He is confused.
(c) He is full of praise.
(d) He is greatful.

5. Where is Pentheus's mother at the beginning of the play?
(a) With the other women.
(b) In the catacombs.
(c) Traveling abroad.
(d) By herself in her rooms.

6. What is the point the Chorus makes in their second ode?
(a) Mocking Pentheus.
(b) Honoring Pentheus.
(c) Praising Pentheus.
(d) Denouncing Pentheus.

7. According to the Chorus, who is Dirce's father?
(a) Achelous.
(b) Athenosus.
(c) Amegianos.
(d) Archelogious.

8. How does the servant who brings Dionysus in to Pentheus refer to Dionysus?
(a) As a king.
(b) As a slave.
(c) As prey.
(d) As a man.

9. Cadmus tells Pentheus that if he would call Dionysus a god, it would do what?
(a) Stop his desire for revenge.
(b) Prevent disaster.
(c) Calm the women.
(d) Honor the whole family.

10. What place does the Chorus call the "haunt of beasts?"
(a) Nysa.
(b) Corus.
(c) Thames.
(d) Earth.

11. According to the Chorus, where did Pentheus put his prisoner?
(a) A hole in the earth.
(b) A tower too high to climb.
(c) A stinky stable.
(d) A gloomy dungeon.

12. Pentheus is ______ by the worshipers of Dionysus.
(a) Scared.
(b) Honored.
(c) Encouraged.
(d) Revolted.

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

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

15. What did Dionysus cause to infect the women of Thebes?
(a) Madness.
(b) Lust.
(c) Revenge.
(d) Sickness.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Chorus praises Dionysus as a god who brings what?

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

3. Who are the Bacchae?

4. Wildness and _________ are synonymous with the worship of Dionysus.

5. In the Chorus's first lines, they believe that a happy man is one who leads what kind of life?

(see the answer keys)

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