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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Bacchae, pages 179-200.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Aegisthus preparing to offer the goddess Nymphs in Electra?
(a) A slaughtered virgin.
(b) A slaughtered bull.
(c) A slaughtered dragon.
(d) A slaughtered lamb.

2. Who slips on a stone, and his leg is exposed during the duel?
(a) Teiresius.
(b) Eteocles.
(c) Polyneices.
(d) Creon.

3. Who does Electra call unfaithful, attractive to women, but a worthless coward underneath his pretty face?
(a) Clytemnestra.
(b) Pylades.
(c) Orestes.
(d) Aegisthus.

4. Eteocles decrees anyone who buries his brother in Thebes be what?
(a) Fined.
(b) Killed.
(c) Imprisoned.
(d) Exiled.

5. Who has a plan for how to kill Clytemnestra?
(a) Aegisthus.
(b) The old servant.
(c) Electra.
(d) Orestes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What appears when one of the wild women strikes a rock with a stick in The Bacchae?

2. What has Oedipus outwitted in The Phoenician Women?

3. Who kills the dragon that Ares has fathered?

4. Who does Electra send her husband to go find when the strangers enter the cottage?

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

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