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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Dionysus appear when he enters?
(a) As a god.
(b) As a woman.
(c) As a man.
(d) As a bull.

2. What appears when one of the wild women strikes a rock with a stick in The Bacchae?
(a) A fire.
(b) A team of leopards.
(c) A spring of water.
(d) A tree.

3. Who delivers the opening speech of exposition in The Bacchae?
(a) The chorus.
(b) Agave.
(c) Semele.
(d) Dionysus.

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

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

6. Who is the founder of Thebes?
(a) Semele.
(b) Cadmus.
(c) Pentheus.
(d) Dionysus.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. In The Bacchae, the chorus sings that ______ men are punished by the gods.
(a) Prideful.
(b) Dangerous.
(c) Vile.
(d) Lustful.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comes to tell Pentheus of the women performing miracles on the mountain?

2. Who did Zeus hide Dionysus from as a child?

3. Who is Cadmus' grandson?

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

5. Who does Teiresius say must die to save Thebes?

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