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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. In telling of the future, what does Dionysus say will happen to the people of Thebes?
(a) They will reap gold.
(b) Their punishment is over.
(c) They will become slaves.
(d) They will worship forever.

2. The herders try to ambush who to bring her back to Pentheus?
(a) Artemis.
(b) Ios.
(c) Autone.
(d) Agave.

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

4. How does Eteocles suggest they attack the opposing army?
(a) At dusk.
(b) At dawn.
(c) At night.
(d) At noon.

5. Who comes to inform Electra of the success of Orestes' deed?
(a) Agamemnon's servant.
(b) Clytemnestra.
(c) Agamemon.
(d) Orestes' servant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose head does Agave say she carries on a wand in The Bacchae?

2. 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?

3. Where does The Phoenician Women take place?

4. Who is Clytemnestra's daughter?

5. Who enters with Antigone in her first entrance in The Phoenician Women?

(see the answer key)

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