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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. Who goes to stop the duel to the death in The Phoenician Women?
(a) Teiresius.
(b) Creon and Jocasta.
(c) Eteocles and Jocasta.
(d) Jocasta calls Antigone.

2. Who does Polyneices pray to for victory in the duel?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Atlas.
(c) Hera.
(d) Ares.

3. After the battle in The Phoenician Women, who enters, crying for his son's death?
(a) Jocasta.
(b) Oedipus.
(c) Creon.
(d) Teiresius.

4. Whose marriage in Electra has NOT been consummated?
(a) Electra's.
(b) Orestes'.
(c) Clytemnestra's.
(d) Antigone's.

5. Who does Eteocles pray to for victory in the duel?
(a) Hera.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Ares.
(d) Pallas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who kills the dragon that Ares has fathered?

2. The chorus in The Phoenician Women is waiting to be sent where?

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

4. Who is killed in sacrifice for the Trojan War?

5. Whose servant arrives with food for Electra and her guests?

(see the answer key)

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