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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Bacchants.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Who tells Iphigenia that there are two strangers in their land?
(a) Merchants.
(b) Priests.
(c) Herdsmen.
(d) Locals.

2. "Iphigenia among Taurians": What does Iphigenia feel as she prepares to perform the sacrifice?
(a) No pleasure.
(b) No sadness.
(c) No pain.
(d) No loss.

3. "Medea": Medea claims that women are the unhappiest creatures on earth for a second reason. What is the second reason?
(a) They have to bear the terror of childbirth.
(b) They have to live with men.
(c) They have to live as mothers to children.
(d) They have to teach children.

4. "Ion": Which goddess appears to tell how Ion's descendants will settle many parts of Greece ?
(a) Hera.
(b) Aphrodite.
(c) Artemis.
(d) Athena.

5. "Medea": What does the chorus fear Medea will do unless she is calmed?
(a) Abandon her children.
(b) Unleash her fury on the house of Creon.
(c) Kill everyone in her house.
(d) Kill herself.

Short Answer Questions

1. "The Bacchants": In the jail, whom does Pentheus question when the women have escaped?

2. "Medea": Who tells Medea that she and her two sons are to be exiled immediately?

3. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Which goddess appears and prevents the king from killing Iphigenia and Orestes?

4. "Iphigenia among Taurians": Where does Iphigenia think her brother is when she is going to release one of the men to take a message to him?

5. "Ion": Who tells Creusa that she will never have a child with Xuthus?

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