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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Eteocles decrees anyone who buries his brother in Thebes be what?
(a) Fined.
(b) Exiled.
(c) Killed.
(d) Imprisoned.

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

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

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

11. Who comes to tell Pentheus of the women performing miracles on the mountain?
(a) Agave.
(b) A herdsman.
(c) Dionysus.
(d) Teiresius.

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

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

14. Who goes to stop the duel to the death in The Phoenician Women?
(a) Teiresius.
(b) Creon and Jocasta.
(c) Eteocles and Jocasta.
(d) Jocasta calls Antigone.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who kills the dragon that Ares has fathered?

2. Who does Polyneices pray to for victory in the duel?

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

4. What is the notable structure seen in the setting of The Bacchae?

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

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