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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the messenger tell Creon is dead near the end of The Phoenician Women?
(a) Eteocles.
(b) Jocasta.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Polyneices.

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

3. To whom is Antigone planned to wed?
(a) Haemon.
(b) Polyneices.
(c) Thesius.
(d) Menoeceus.

4. How many captains does Creon suggest using to ambush the army?
(a) Seven.
(b) Six.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Ten.

5. Who is the blind prophet in The Phoenician Women?
(a) Cartamus.
(b) Teiresius.
(c) The pedagogue.
(d) Menoeceus.

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

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

8. Who attacks with spears, but is fought off by the Thebian army in The Phoenician Women?
(a) Tydeus.
(b) Oedipus.
(c) Creon.
(d) Cartemus.

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

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

11. Who does Eteocles pray to for victory in the duel?
(a) Hera.
(b) Ares.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Pallas.

12. Who welcomes Dionysus after he escapes the stable?
(a) Coryphaeus.
(b) Pentheus.
(c) Agave.
(d) Medusa.

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Eteocles tells Creon that Polyneices will do what?

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

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

4. Who is Dionysus' mother?

5. How does Dionysus appear when he enters?

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