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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tiresius suffer from?
(a) Lameness.
(b) Deafness.
(c) Muteness.
(d) Blindness.

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

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

4. Pentheus accuses Tiresius of supporting Dionysus for what reasons?
(a) Dishonest reasons.
(b) Selfish reasons.
(c) Misguided reasons.
(d) Hurtful reasons.

5. The Chorus says that Dionysus is the "nurse divine of _______."
(a) Pleasure.
(b) Youth.
(c) Feasts.
(d) Royalty.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Chorus says, "What ______ ______ the earth-born race displays."

2. This Chorus's point of view is that Dionysus is what?

3. Who is Dionysus's father?

4. Pentheus says that he will do what to the women he has captured?

5. According to the Chorus, what is hateful to Dionysus?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the king obsessed with?

2. What is the secret that Dionysus reveals to the audience in the Prologue but not to the other characters?

3. What has happened to Dionysus and Pentheus during the fourth ode?

4. What does the first messenger report that is in conflict with what the king believes?

5. In the Parados, wildness and holiness are synonymous with what?

6. What is the Chorus trying to inspire in their fourth ode?

7. When Cadmus and Tiresius anger Pentheus, what does Pentheus order?

8. What is the reason Dionysus came to Thebes?

9. How is the worship of Dionysus described in the Parados?

10. What does Cadmus do when confronted with Agave carrying Pentheus's head?

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