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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Dionysus is the god of ____ and fertility.
(a) War.
(b) Evil.
(c) Wine.
(d) Lightning.
2. What natural disaster does Dionysus call forth in The Bacchae?
(a) A hurricane.
(b) A volcano.
(c) An earthquake.
(d) A tsunami.
3. Eteocles tells Creon that Polyneices will do what?
(a) Return in a month.
(b) Wage war.
(c) Give up.
(d) Take the crown.
4. The herders try to ambush who to bring her back to Pentheus?
(a) Artemis.
(b) Agave.
(c) Ios.
(d) Autone.
5. Who calls Dionysus the greatest god, after hearing of the wild women in The Bacchae?
(a) Pentheus.
(b) Agave.
(c) Artemis.
(d) Corphaeus.
6. What does Dionysus strike down with lightning?
(a) The city.
(b) The palace.
(c) The fortress.
(d) The trees.
7. After the battle in The Phoenician Women, who enters, crying for his son's death?
(a) Creon.
(b) Teiresius.
(c) Oedipus.
(d) Jocasta.
8. Who takes a sword and stabs herself in the end of The Phoenician Women?
(a) Antigone.
(b) Jocasta.
(c) Creon.
(d) Electra.
9. What is the setting for the opening of The Bacchae?
(a) A Dionysian altar.
(b) Apollo's shrine.
(c) A farm house.
(d) A palace.
10. Whose death does the chorus sing of in the beginning of The Bacchae?
(a) Dionysus'.
(b) Oedipus'.
(c) Agave's.
(d) Semele's.
11. What appears when one of the wild women of the Bacchae strikes the ground?
(a) Lightning.
(b) A fire.
(c) A spring of milk.
(d) A spring of wine.
12. Who is exiled at the end of The Phoenician Women?
(a) Menoeceus.
(b) Oedipus.
(c) Teiresius.
(d) Creon.
13. Who welcomes Dionysus after he escapes the stable?
(a) Medusa.
(b) Pentheus.
(c) Agave.
(d) Coryphaeus.
14. Who does Teiresius say must die to save Thebes?
(a) Antigone.
(b) Menoeceus.
(c) Hermeos.
(d) Creon.
15. Polyneices, with his last breath, begs for what?
(a) To be buried in Athens.
(b) To be buried in Thebes.
(c) To be buried in Argos.
(d) For his wife to be queen.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many gates surround Thebes?
2. What appears when one of the wild women strikes a rock with a stick in The Bacchae?
3. In The Bacchae, the chorus sings that ______ men are punished by the gods.
4. Who is the new leader of Thebes at the end of The Phoenician Women?
5. Who kills the dragon that Ares has fathered?
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