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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 ask to hide the body of Aegisthus?
(a) The farmer.
(b) Pylades.
(c) Orestes.
(d) The chorus.

2. Whose life does the chorus bemoan before the battle in The Phoenician Women?
(a) Antigone's.
(b) Polyneices'.
(c) Oedipus'.
(d) Eteocles'.

3. Who takes the first year of rule over Thebes, but will not give up the throne when it comes time for his brother to take over?
(a) Eteocles.
(b) Creon.
(c) Oedipus.
(d) Polyneices.

4. Who makes up the chorus in Electra?
(a) Argive peasant women.
(b) Trojan women.
(c) Phoenician women.
(d) Thebian peasant women.

5. In the Phoenician Women, who does Ares seek revenge against?
(a) Oedipus.
(b) Creon.
(c) Cadmus.
(d) Eteocles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Electra condemns all men who confuse what with power?

2. Eteocles tells Creon that Polyneices will do what?

3. What does Laius do with his son?

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

5. Who retreats when realizing the gods are against him?

(see the answer key)

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