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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 Eteocles ask Creon to speak to of the coming war?
(a) Teiresius.
(b) Menoeceus.
(c) Pylades.
(d) Zeus.

2. Who says our daily food is a small matter in Electra?
(a) Iphegenia.
(b) Orestes.
(c) Clytemnestra.
(d) The farmer.

3. What does Laius do with his son?
(a) Sells him to a farmer.
(b) Abandons him to die.
(c) Buries him alive.
(d) Kills him.

4. What food and provisions are brought to Electra for her and her guests?
(a) Bull, mead and water.
(b) Lamb, olives, and water.
(c) Lamb, flowers, cheese and wine.
(d) Lamb, onions, and potatoes.

5. Who has been gossiping that Dionysus is NOT the son of Zeus?
(a) Agave's mother.
(b) Cadmus.
(c) Semele's sisters.
(d) Orpheus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the wife of Laius?

2. Who drops stones from the wall during the battle in The Phoenician Women?

3. Who is Dionysus' mother?

4. Who calls Dionysus the greatest god, after hearing of the wild women in The Bacchae?

5. Whose death does the chorus sing of in the beginning of The Bacchae?

(see the answer key)

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