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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the notable structure seen in the setting of The Bacchae?
(a) A statue.
(b) Dionysus' altar.
(c) A smoking tomb.
(d) Apollo's altar.

2. On what mountain are the wild women performing miracles in The Bacchae?
(a) Mount Olympus.
(b) Mount Cyprus.
(c) Mount Cithaeron.
(d) Mount Hellene.

3. Whose army is chased away at the end of the battle in The Phoenician Women?
(a) Hellenian.
(b) Trojan.
(c) Argive.
(d) Thebian.

4. Who slips on a stone, and his leg is exposed during the duel?
(a) Creon.
(b) Polyneices.
(c) Eteocles.
(d) Teiresius.

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

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

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

8. Who does Zeus strike down from the gate with lightning in the battle of The Phoenician Women?
(a) Polyneices.
(b) Creon.
(c) Eteocles.
(d) Capaneus.

9. When the wild women scratch at the ground, what appears, in The Bacchae?
(a) Fire.
(b) Milk and honey.
(c) Locusts.
(d) Water and fire.

10. What appears when one of the wild women strikes a rock with a stick in The Bacchae?
(a) A tree.
(b) A team of leopards.
(c) A fire.
(d) A spring of water.

11. Eteocles tells Creon that Polyneices will do what?
(a) Take the crown.
(b) Return in a month.
(c) Wage war.
(d) Give up.

12. What appears when one of the wild women of the Bacchae strikes the ground?
(a) Lightning.
(b) A fire.
(c) A spring of wine.
(d) A spring of milk.

13. Who comes to tell Pentheus of the women performing miracles on the mountain?
(a) Dionysus.
(b) Teiresius.
(c) A herdsman.
(d) Agave.

14. Who is Pentheus' mother?
(a) Autonoe.
(b) Ino.
(c) Agave.
(d) Semele.

15. How does Dionysus appear when he enters?
(a) As a man.
(b) As a god.
(c) As a bull.
(d) As a woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dionysus leads Pentheus away, saying that who will bring him back in her arms?

2. Where has Dionysus been traveling to gather followers?

3. Who is Antigone's betrothed husband the son of?

4. Who is the founder of Thebes?

5. Who does Eteocles ask Creon to speak to of the coming war?

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