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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What "enriches with his waters a fair land of steeds?"
(a) The father of streams.
(b) The father of sprinklers.
(c) The father of rivers.
(d) The father of irrigation.

2. Why does Pentheus become enraged when questioning his prisoner?
(a) He doesn't understand the prisoner.
(b) The prisoner only speaks in riddles.
(c) He doesn't like the prisoner's answers.
(d) The prisoner doesn't answer him.

3. The Chorus says that Cyprus is the isle of what goddess?
(a) Artemis.
(b) Fate.
(c) Aphrodite.
(d) Persephone.

4. What is the Axius?
(a) A stream.
(b) A river.
(c) An ocean.
(d) A sea.

5. Pentheus is obsessed with what aspect of the women's behavior?
(a) Their prayerful behavior.
(b) Their childish behavior.
(c) Their sexual behavior.
(d) Their honest behavior.

6. What place does the Chorus call the "haunt of beasts?"
(a) Corus.
(b) Nysa.
(c) Earth.
(d) Thames.

7. The Chorus says that Dionysus is the "nurse divine of _______."
(a) Royalty.
(b) Feasts.
(c) Youth.
(d) Pleasure.

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

9. What is the Chorus praying for in the second ode?
(a) The intervention of Dionysus.
(b) The release of their cult leader.
(c) The intervention of Zeus.
(d) The release of the women.

10. What are Tiresius and Cadmus planning on doing?
(a) Honoring Dionysus.
(b) Praying to Dionysus in the temple.
(c) Pretending to be women.
(d) Partying with the women.

11. Pentheus says that he will do what to the women he has captured?
(a) Return them to their families.
(b) Keep them in the prison.
(c) Make them his mistresses.
(d) Sell them as slaves.

12. According to the soldier when he brings Dionysus, what happened to the women in their prison?
(a) They are not eating.
(b) They are sleeping.
(c) They are free.
(d) They are dead.

13. Who says, "By this name, O Baccic god, I now proclaim thee to Thebes?"
(a) Semele.
(b) Cadmus.
(c) Hera.
(d) The Chorus.

14. What describes the stories that Pentheus shares about the women and their worship of Dionysus?
(a) Scandalous.
(b) Frightful.
(c) Enlightened.
(d) Praising.

15. After Cadmus and Tiresius talk to Pentheus, what does the Chorus call Pentheus?
(a) A miser.
(b) A fool.
(c) A blasphemer.
(d) A dead man.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the Parodos?

3. When Dionysus says, multiple times, that the god is before Pentheus, what is Pentheus' reaction?

4. Tiresius says that failing to give honor where honor is due is what?

5. According to the Chorus, what is hateful to Dionysus?

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