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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Bacchae, pages 200-220.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the notable structure seen in the setting of The Bacchae?
(a) Dionysus' altar.
(b) A smoking tomb.
(c) A statue.
(d) Apollo's altar.

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

3. Who invites the messengers into the cottage?
(a) Clytemnestra.
(b) Aegisthus.
(c) The farmer.
(d) Electra.

4. Who locks Oedipus in the palace in shame?
(a) His daughters.
(b) Creon.
(c) His sons.
(d) His wife.

5. Who does Electra tell that her husband is alive?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Clytemnestra.
(c) Orestes.
(d) Eteocles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who accompanies Creon to see Teiresius?

2. Who slips on a stone, and his leg is exposed during the duel?

3. Dionysus offers to lead Pentheus where?

4. Who has been gossiping that Dionysus is NOT the son of Zeus?

5. What does Dionysus say that Thebes was punished for in the end of The Bacchae?

(see the answer key)

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