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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. For what does Aegisthus offer Orestes party water?
(a) To clean meat.
(b) To give to their maidens.
(c) To wash.
(d) To drink.

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

3. Who tells Laius NOT to father a child?
(a) Teiresius.
(b) Oracles.
(c) Dionysus.
(d) The Dioscuri.

4. To whose daughter is Polyneices married?
(a) Artemis.
(b) Electra.
(c) Antigone.
(d) Adrastus.

5. Who takes a sword and stabs herself in the end of The Phoenician Women?
(a) Jocasta.
(b) Antigone.
(c) Electra.
(d) Creon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Electra's husband chastise her for doing in the beginning of Electra?

2. When Orestes returns in the end of Electra, what does he offer his sister to do with what she pleases?

3. What does Menoeceus do during the battle in The Phoenician Women?

4. Who is Laius' son?

5. What does Orestes ask the old servant once he is discovered?

(see the answer key)

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