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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. Who appears in the heavens at the end of Electra?
(a) Zeus.
(b) The Dioscuri.
(c) Dionysus.
(d) Artemis.

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

3. What has Dionysus done to the women of Thebes?
(a) Turned them mad.
(b) Sent them to Troy.
(c) Seduced them.
(d) Killed them.

4. Whose life does the chorus bemoan before the battle in The Phoenician Women?
(a) Antigone's.
(b) Eteocles'.
(c) Polyneices'.
(d) Oedipus'.

5. Eteocles tells Creon that Polyneices will do what?
(a) Take the crown.
(b) Return in a month.
(c) Give up.
(d) Wage war.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Teiresius say must die to save Thebes?

2. Who delivers the opening speech of exposition in The Bacchae?

3. Electra condemns all men who confuse what with power?

4. Who does Orestes tell Aegisthus he is going to make a sacrifice for?

5. Who does Electra ask to hide the body of Aegisthus?

(see the answer key)

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