View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Tiresius tells Pentheus not to rely on what, to dominate mankind?
(a) Reason.
(b) Force.
(c) Logic.
(d) Fear.

3. At the beginning of the play, where are the women of Thebes?
(a) At the river.
(b) Outside the city.
(c) In their homes.
(d) In the temple.

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

5. On which mountain do the Pierian Muses have their "haunt most fair?"
(a) Mt. Othella.
(b) Mt. Olives.
(c) Mt. Oppilos.
(d) Mt. Olympus.

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

7. When Dionysus was born, he was crowned with a coronal of what?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Grapes.
(c) Ivy.
(d) Snakes.

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

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

10. Pentheus scolds Cadmus for looking ________.
(a) Sad.
(b) Foolish.
(c) Worshipful.
(d) Happy.

11. Who says, "By this name, O Baccic god, I now proclaim thee to Thebes?"
(a) The Chorus.
(b) Cadmus.
(c) Semele.
(d) Hera.

12. Tiresius tells Pentheus that the story of Dionysus is a what?
(a) Comparison.
(b) Myth.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Hyperbole.

13. The Chorus says they have traveled over what "holy ridge" to "hasten to a pleasant task?"
(a) Olympus.
(b) Tmolus.
(c) Sacchern.
(d) Urals.

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

15. Why does Pentheus want the women to spin at the loom?
(a) To make things for him.
(b) To do something with their lives.
(c) To honor other gods and goddesses.
(d) To quiet their drumming.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the servant who brings Dionysus in to Pentheus refer to Dionysus?

3. Why is the soldier ashamed to bring Dionysus to Pentheus?

4. Dionysus has taken what form so he can punish people?

5. The Chorus says that Dionysus is the "nurse divine of _______."

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 414 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample