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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 kind of blade does Orestes use to skin the animal with Aegisthus?
(a) Dorian.
(b) Artemen.
(c) Curmean.
(d) Trojan.

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

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

4. Who will save Cadmus and his wife at the end, according to Dionysus, at the end of The Bacchae?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Ares.
(c) Dionysus.
(d) Artemis.

5. Orestes tells Electra that he's having second thoughts about killing whom?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Iphegenia.
(c) Aegisthus.
(d) Clytemnestra.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who becomes Clytemnestra's lover?

3. What natural disaster does Dionysus call forth in The Bacchae?

4. After the battle in The Phoenician Women, who enters, crying for his son's death?

5. Coryphaeus counters to the messenger who chides her for praising Dionysus that she is not _____ and follows her god.

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