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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dionysus strike down with lightning?
(a) The palace.
(b) The city.
(c) The fortress.
(d) The trees.

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

3. Who has the greater army in the war in The Phoenician Women?
(a) The Argives.
(b) Hellene.
(c) The Trojans.
(d) Thebes.

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

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

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

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

8. Who did Zeus hide Dionysus from as a child?
(a) Hera.
(b) Semele.
(c) Pentheus.
(d) Artemis.

9. Who has been gossiping that Dionysus is NOT the son of Zeus?
(a) Cadmus.
(b) Agave's mother.
(c) Semele's sisters.
(d) Orpheus.

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

11. Who is the current ruler of Thebes in The Bacchae?
(a) Oedipus.
(b) Creon.
(c) Pentheus.
(d) Cadmus.

12. Who is now preparing for a battle to the death, according to the messenger after the battle in The Phoenician Women?
(a) Polyneices and Eteocles.
(b) Teiresius and Polyneices.
(c) Tydeus and Eteocles.
(d) Creon and Tydeus.

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

14. What is the setting for the opening of The Bacchae?
(a) Apollo's shrine.
(b) A palace.
(c) A Dionysian altar.
(d) A farm house.

15. Who retreats when realizing the gods are against him?
(a) Adrastus.
(b) Eteocles.
(c) Polyneices.
(d) Creon.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who makes up the chorus in The Bacchae?

3. Who delivers the opening speech of exposition in The Bacchae?

4. Who does Eteocles pray to for victory in the duel?

5. Pentheus has heard of a trickster from where, claiming that Dionysus is a god?

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