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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whose life does the chorus bemoan before the battle in The Phoenician Women?
(a) Polyneices'.
(b) Antigone's.
(c) Eteocles'.
(d) Oedipus'.

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

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

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

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

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

8. When the wild women scratch at the ground, what appears, in The Bacchae?
(a) Fire.
(b) Water and fire.
(c) Milk and honey.
(d) Locusts.

9. Pentheus has heard of a trickster from where, claiming that Dionysus is a god?
(a) Lydia.
(b) Argos.
(c) Athens.
(d) Troy.

10. Who is Dionysus' mother?
(a) Artemis.
(b) Semele.
(c) Hera.
(d) Agave.

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

12. Who is Cadmus' grandson?
(a) Coryphaeus.
(b) Teiresius.
(c) Semele.
(d) Pentheus.

13. Who does Eteocles ask Creon to speak to of the coming war?
(a) Teiresius.
(b) Menoeceus.
(c) Pylades.
(d) Zeus.

14. Instead of Dionysus, what is in the stable that is to be Dionysus' prison?
(a) Bull.
(b) Lion.
(c) Tiger.
(d) Horse.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where has Dionysus been traveling to gather followers?

2. How many gates surround Thebes?

3. Who calls Dionysus the greatest god, after hearing of the wild women in The Bacchae?

4. Who makes up the chorus in The Bacchae?

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

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