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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the Phoenician Women, who does Ares seek revenge against?
(a) Cadmus.
(b) Eteocles.
(c) Oedipus.
(d) Creon.

2. Who does the messenger tell Creon is dead near the end of The Phoenician Women?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Eteocles.
(c) Polyneices.
(d) Jocasta.

3. Who is killed by stones dropped from the wall in the battle in The Phoenician Women?
(a) Antigone.
(b) Parthenopaeus.
(c) Eteocles.
(d) Cartemus.

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

5. Whose death does the chorus sing of in the beginning of The Bacchae?
(a) Agave's.
(b) Dionysus'.
(c) Oedipus'.
(d) Semele's.

6. What natural disaster does Dionysus call forth in The Bacchae?
(a) A tsunami.
(b) A hurricane.
(c) An earthquake.
(d) A volcano.

7. To whom is Antigone planned to wed?
(a) Menoeceus.
(b) Haemon.
(c) Polyneices.
(d) Thesius.

8. Who does Eteocles pray to for victory in the duel?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Ares.
(c) Hera.
(d) Pallas.

9. Polyneices, with his last breath, begs for what?
(a) For his wife to be queen.
(b) To be buried in Thebes.
(c) To be buried in Argos.
(d) To be buried in Athens.

10. Who goes to stop the duel to the death in The Phoenician Women?
(a) Creon and Jocasta.
(b) Teiresius.
(c) Eteocles and Jocasta.
(d) Jocasta calls Antigone.

11. What has Dionysus done to the women of Thebes?
(a) Sent them to Troy.
(b) Seduced them.
(c) Killed them.
(d) Turned them mad.

12. What god does the chorus bemoan in the last half of The Phoenician Women?
(a) Ares.
(b) Athena.
(c) Juno.
(d) Zeus.

13. Who does Eteocles ask Creon to speak to of the coming war?
(a) Pylades.
(b) Teiresius.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Menoeceus.

14. Who makes up the chorus in The Bacchae?
(a) The Asian Bacchae.
(b) The Armenian Bacchae.
(c) The Trojan Bacchae.
(d) The Argive Bacchae.

15. Who delivers the opening speech of exposition in The Bacchae?
(a) The chorus.
(b) Agave.
(c) Semele.
(d) Dionysus.

Short Answer Questions

1. In The Bacchae, the chorus sings that ______ men are punished by the gods.

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

3. Who is the blind prophet in The Phoenician Women?

4. Eteocles decrees anyone who buries his brother in Thebes be what?

5. The herders try to ambush who to bring her back to Pentheus?

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