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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) The Dioscuri.
(b) Artemis.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Dionysus.

2. What kind of blade does Orestes use to skin the animal with Aegisthus?
(a) Artemen.
(b) Trojan.
(c) Curmean.
(d) Dorian.

3. Who is Cadmus' grandson?
(a) Pentheus.
(b) Coryphaeus.
(c) Semele.
(d) Teiresius.

4. Who has the greater army in the war in The Phoenician Women?
(a) The Trojans.
(b) Hellene.
(c) Thebes.
(d) The Argives.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Pentheus has heard of a trickster from where, claiming that Dionysus is a god?

2. Who does Electra NOT want the body to be seen by?

3. What kind of knife does Orestes ask for to butcher the animal?

4. What does Aegisthus take to predict the future?

5. To whom is Antigone planned to wed?

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