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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Bacchae, pages 155-179.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Electra condemns all men who confuse what with power?
(a) Love.
(b) Lust.
(c) Money.
(d) Rage.

2. What does Aegisthus take to predict the future?
(a) A bowl of water.
(b) Tea leaves.
(c) A mirror.
(d) The bull's innards.

3. Orestes tells Electra that he's having second thoughts about killing whom?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Clytemnestra.
(c) Aegisthus.
(d) Iphegenia.

4. Whose death does the chorus sing of in the beginning of The Bacchae?
(a) Semele's.
(b) Oedipus'.
(c) Dionysus'.
(d) Agave's.

5. Who does Eteocles ask Creon to speak to of the coming war?
(a) Pylades.
(b) Menoeceus.
(c) Teiresius.
(d) Zeus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aegisthus throw on the altar when with Orestes?

2. Who says to the dead Aegisthus that his marriage was godless and filled with evil?

3. Eteocles tells Creon that Polyneices will do what?

4. To whose daughter is Polyneices married?

5. Who kills the dragon that Ares has fathered?

(see the answer key)

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