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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 does Menoeceus do during the battle in The Phoenician Women?
(a) Sacrifices himself.
(b) Kills Aegisthus.
(c) Kills Teiresius.
(d) Kills Creon.

2. Who accompanies Creon to see Teiresius?
(a) Andromache.
(b) Menoeceus.
(c) Clytemnestra.
(d) Helen.

3. When the wild women scratch at the ground, what appears, in The Bacchae?
(a) Locusts.
(b) Fire.
(c) Water and fire.
(d) Milk and honey.

4. What natural disaster does Dionysus call forth in The Bacchae?
(a) An earthquake.
(b) A tsunami.
(c) A volcano.
(d) A hurricane.

5. Who says to the dead Aegisthus that his marriage was godless and filled with evil?
(a) The farmer.
(b) Clytemnestra.
(c) Orestes.
(d) Electra.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is now preparing for a battle to the death, according to the messenger after the battle in The Phoenician Women?

2. What does Aegisthus take to predict the future?

3. Who was Clytemnestra's first husband?

4. Who makes up the chorus in The Bacchae?

5. On what mountain are the wild women performing miracles in The Bacchae?

(see the answer key)

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