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

2. Of the wild women of The Bacchae, who hears the cows and wakes the other women up?
(a) Artemis.
(b) Autone.
(c) Ios.
(d) Agave.

3. Who is the wife of Laius?
(a) Antigone.
(b) Jocasta.
(c) Electra.
(d) Polyneices.

4. Who does Orestes tell Aegisthus that he and his party are?
(a) Thebians.
(b) Argives.
(c) Trojans.
(d) Thessalians.

5. Who has called a truce to attempt to make peace in The Phoenician Women?
(a) Jocasta.
(b) Polyneices.
(c) Oedipus.
(d) Antigone.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is Antigone planned to wed?

2. Who is Electra married to?

3. What appears when one of the wild women of the Bacchae strikes the ground?

4. Who says our daily food is a small matter in Electra?

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

(see the answer key)

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