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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Teiresius say must die to save Thebes?
(a) Hermeos.
(b) Creon.
(c) Menoeceus.
(d) Antigone.

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

3. After the battle in The Phoenician Women, who enters, crying for his son's death?
(a) Teiresius.
(b) Oedipus.
(c) Jocasta.
(d) Creon.

4. Who accompanies Creon to see Teiresius?
(a) Menoeceus.
(b) Helen.
(c) Clytemnestra.
(d) Andromache.

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

6. Dionysus says that Pentheus must dress how to avoid being killed by the celebrants?
(a) As Dionysus.
(b) As a woman.
(c) As Zeus.
(d) As a shepherd.

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

8. Of the wild women of The Bacchae, who hears the cows and wakes the other women up?
(a) Autone.
(b) Agave.
(c) Artemis.
(d) Ios.

9. Who calls Dionysus the greatest god, after hearing of the wild women in The Bacchae?
(a) Pentheus.
(b) Artemis.
(c) Agave.
(d) Corphaeus.

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

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

12. To whose daughter is Polyneices married?
(a) Artemis.
(b) Electra.
(c) Antigone.
(d) Adrastus.

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

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

15. Who adamantly does NOT worship Dionysus in The Bacchae?
(a) Pentheus.
(b) Ino.
(c) Agave.
(d) Semele.

Short Answer Questions

1. What appears when one of the wild women strikes a rock with a stick in The Bacchae?

2. To whom is Antigone planned to wed?

3. What natural disaster does Dionysus call forth in The Bacchae?

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

5. What is reported that the women tore apart with bare hands in The Bacchae?

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