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

2. Who does Polyneices pray to for victory in the duel?
(a) Hera.
(b) Atlas.
(c) Ares.
(d) Zeus.

3. When Oedipus learns the truth about his background, what does he do?
(a) Leaves Thebes.
(b) Kills himself.
(c) Divorces his wife.
(d) Gouges out his eyes.

4. Of the wild women of The Bacchae, who hears the cows and wakes the other women up?
(a) Agave.
(b) Ios.
(c) Artemis.
(d) Autone.

5. Who has a plan for how to kill Clytemnestra?
(a) The old servant.
(b) Orestes.
(c) Aegisthus.
(d) Electra.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who kills the dragon that Ares has fathered?

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

3. Who is the current ruler of Thebes in The Bacchae?

4. Who laments in grief, but says that Dionysus' punishment is just in the end of The Bacchae?

5. Who married Electra to her current husband?

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