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

2. What kind of relationship did Dionysus's father have with his mother?
(a) An affair.
(b) A ritual.
(c) A fling.
(d) A marriage.

3. The Chorus says that Cyprus is the isle of what goddess?
(a) Aphrodite.
(b) Artemis.
(c) Persephone.
(d) Fate.

4. What word describes both Tiresius and Cadmus?
(a) Hearty.
(b) Old.
(c) Handsome.
(d) Youthful.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Parodos?

2. Pentheus is obsessed with what aspect of the women's behavior?

3. Why does Pentheus want the women to spin at the loom?

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

5. What does Tiresius suffer from?

Short Essay Questions

1. What promise does Dionysus make about Pentheus's return to Thebes?

2. How does the Chorus define the simple man?

3. What is being denounced in the second choral ode?

4. Why is Agave unaware she has murdered her own son?

5. Who is Tiresius?

6. Why does Cadmus argue with Pentheus?

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

8. How does the Chorus function as an extension of Dionysus?

9. What does Pentheus hope to discover while spying on the women?

10. What story does the Parados tell?

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