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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) Plato.
(c) Euripides.
(d) Aristotle.

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

3. This Chorus's point of view is that Dionysus is what?
(a) Divine.
(b) Mortal.
(c) Sweet.
(d) Subtle.

4. If you aim too high, and miss the pleasures within your reach, the Chorus would consider you a what?
(a) Madman and fool.
(b) Madman and idiot.
(c) Madman and philospher.
(d) Madman and rich.

5. Dionysus has taken what form so he can punish people?
(a) A minotaur.
(b) A human.
(c) A pheonix.
(d) A monster.

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

7. Who is Pentheus's father?
(a) Echion.
(b) Esseles.
(c) Eggarton.
(d) Escabe.

8. The Chorus praises Dionysus as a god who cures the grief of the ________ and the ________.
(a) Adult, child.
(b) Woman, man.
(c) Slave, master.
(d) Rich, poor.

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

10. What is Semele?
(a) A goddess.
(b) A nymph.
(c) A spirit.
(d) A mortal.

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

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

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

14. Who are the Bacchae?
(a) The Chorus.
(b) The priests of Dionysus.
(c) The unbelivers.
(d) Dionysus's followers.

15. What is the Parodos?
(a) A hymn of lament.
(b) A hymn of desire.
(c) A hymn of praise.
(d) A hymn of longing.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Chorus, in the Parodos, describes the joy of worship with what?

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

3. On which mountain do the Pierian Muses have their "haunt most fair?"

4. According to the Chorus, who is Zeus's father?

5. According to the soldier when he brings Dionysus, what happened to the women in their prison?

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