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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Menoeceus do during the battle in The Phoenician Women?
(a) Kills Aegisthus.
(b) Kills Teiresius.
(c) Sacrifices himself.
(d) Kills Creon.

2. What is the setting for the opening of The Bacchae?
(a) A Dionysian altar.
(b) A palace.
(c) A farm house.
(d) Apollo's shrine.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The herders try to ambush who to bring her back to Pentheus?

2. Who kills the dragon that Ares has fathered?

3. To whose daughter is Polyneices married?

4. Who has the greater army in the war in The Phoenician Women?

5. In The Bacchae, the chorus sings that ______ men are punished by the gods.

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the battle illuminated in The Phoenician Women?

2. Who is the central character of The Bacchae? How is he dressed?

3. Who is the superior military strategist between Eteocles and Creon? Why?

4. What is Antigone's fate at the end of The Phoenician Women?

5. What is the central setting of The Bacchae?

6. How does the brothers' battle in The Phoenician Women reflect the theme of the play?

7. What is the last straw which unleashes Dionysus' wrath on Pentheus?

8. Why do the Argives retreat in the battle with the Thebians?

9. How does Dionysus illustrate that Pentheus is responsible for his own fate?

10. In the case of his death, what does Eteocles ask of Creon?

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