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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 says that good character cannot be judged by riches, poverty or courage?
(a) The farmer.
(b) Pylades.
(c) Orestes.
(d) Electra.

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

3. Who is Laius' son?
(a) Polyneices.
(b) Oedipus.
(c) Teiresius.
(d) Eteocles.

4. Who comes to tell Pentheus of the women performing miracles on the mountain?
(a) Agave.
(b) A herdsman.
(c) Teiresius.
(d) Dionysus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose marriage in Electra has NOT been consummated?

2. Who is the blind prophet in The Phoenician Women?

3. Who does Electra NOT want the body to be seen by?

4. What does the chorus inform Electra of in the beginning of Electra?

5. Whose life does the chorus bemoan before the battle in The Phoenician Women?

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