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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Eteocles decrees anyone who buries his brother in Thebes be what?
(a) Killed.
(b) Exiled.
(c) Imprisoned.
(d) Fined.

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

3. Instead of Dionysus, what is in the stable that is to be Dionysus' prison?
(a) Horse.
(b) Bull.
(c) Lion.
(d) Tiger.

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

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

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

7. Who is Antigone's betrothed husband the son of?
(a) Oedipus.
(b) The pedagogue.
(c) Creon.
(d) Menoeceus.

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

9. Who kills the dragon that Ares has fathered?
(a) Eteocles.
(b) Oedipus.
(c) Cadmus.
(d) Teiresius.

10. Who does Creon tell Eteocles has captured an opposing soldier?
(a) Trojans.
(b) Argives.
(c) Athenians.
(d) Thebes.

11. Who takes a sword and stabs herself in the end of The Phoenician Women?
(a) Electra.
(b) Antigone.
(c) Creon.
(d) Jocasta.

12. Dionysus offers to lead Pentheus where?
(a) To the women.
(b) To the heavens.
(c) To the villagers.
(d) To the gates.

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

14. Dionysus leads Pentheus away, saying that who will bring him back in her arms?
(a) Himself.
(b) Ios.
(c) Agave.
(d) Athena.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dionysus appear when he enters?

2. How does Eteocles suggest they attack the opposing army?

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

4. Dionysus is the god of ____ and fertility.

5. Polyneices, with his last breath, begs for what?

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