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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. Who does Dionysus address in the play's prologue?
(a) His mother.
(b) Mortals.
(c) The audience.
(d) His father.

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

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

4. Tiresius says that failing to give honor where honor is due is what?
(a) Inviting revenge.
(b) A folly.
(c) A shame.
(d) Real madness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Chorus praying for in the second ode?

2. What is Semele?

3. What rises from the site of Dionysus's mother's death?

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

5. Where has the cult that is in Thebes come from?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the Chorus and Pentheus similar?

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

3. What is the reason Dionysus came to Thebes?

4. What is the Chorus denouncing in the first ode?

5. Who composes the Chorus?

6. How is the Chorus similar to the positions of Tiresius and Cadmus?

7. Who does the cult think they are following?

8. How does the Chorus refer to Pentheus in the fourth ode?

9. What is the message of the final scene of the play?

10. Where does the violence and death take place during the play?

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