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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many gates surround Thebes?
(a) Six.
(b) Nine.
(c) Seven.
(d) Ten.

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

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

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

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

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

8. Who is the new leader of Thebes at the end of The Phoenician Women?
(a) Oedipus.
(b) Eteocles.
(c) Creon.
(d) Antigone.

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

10. In what city-state is The Bacchae set?
(a) Athens.
(b) Thebes.
(c) Argos.
(d) Troy.

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

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

13. Whose army is chased away at the end of the battle in The Phoenician Women?
(a) Thebian.
(b) Argive.
(c) Hellenian.
(d) Trojan.

14. Polyneices, with his last breath, begs for what?
(a) To be buried in Thebes.
(b) To be buried in Argos.
(c) To be buried in Athens.
(d) For his wife to be queen.

15. The herders try to ambush who to bring her back to Pentheus?
(a) Agave.
(b) Artemis.
(c) Ios.
(d) Autone.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Eteocles ask Creon to speak to of the coming war?

2. Who is exiled at the end of The Phoenician Women?

3. Whose death does the chorus sing of in the beginning of The Bacchae?

4. Who is the founder of Thebes?

5. Who does Zeus strike down from the gate with lightning in the battle of The Phoenician Women?

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