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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through First Episode.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Dionysus address in the play's prologue?
(a) Mortals.
(b) His father.
(c) The audience.
(d) His mother.

2. Who is the writer of this play?
(a) Sophecles.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Euripides.
(d) Plato.

3. What does Tiresius suffer from?
(a) Blindness.
(b) Deafness.
(c) Muteness.
(d) Lameness.

4. Where is Pentheus's mother at the beginning of the play?
(a) Traveling abroad.
(b) With the other women.
(c) By herself in her rooms.
(d) In the catacombs.

5. Cadmus tells Pentheus that if he would call Dionysus a god, it would do what?
(a) Honor the whole family.
(b) Calm the women.
(c) Stop his desire for revenge.
(d) Prevent disaster.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Dionysus's father?

2. What word describes both Tiresius and Cadmus?

3. What body part kept Dionysus until he was born?

4. What is the Parodos?

5. What story is told in the Chorus's first appearance?

(see the answer key)

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