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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) Agamemon.
(b) Clytemnestra.
(c) Orestes' servant.
(d) Agamemnon's servant.

2. Whose life does the chorus bemoan before the battle in The Phoenician Women?
(a) Eteocles'.
(b) Polyneices'.
(c) Antigone's.
(d) Oedipus'.

3. Who does Orestes pretend to be when he meets his sister?
(a) A messenger.
(b) A farmer.
(c) A beggar.
(d) A king.

4. Who is Agamemnon's son?
(a) Dioscuri.
(b) Oedipus.
(c) Orestes.
(d) Pylades.

5. After the battle in The Phoenician Women, who enters, crying for his son's death?
(a) Jocasta.
(b) Teiresius.
(c) Creon.
(d) Oedipus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose army is chased away at the end of the battle in The Phoenician Women?

2. Who recognizes Orestes in the cottage?

3. The chorus in The Phoenician Women is waiting to be sent where?

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

5. When Oedipus learns the truth about his background, what does he do?

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