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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 kind of relationship did Dionysus's father have with his mother?
(a) A fling.
(b) A ritual.
(c) An affair.
(d) A marriage.

2. Who leaves the stage right before the Chorus enters for the first time?
(a) Pentheus.
(b) Dionysus.
(c) The Soldier.
(d) The Messenger.

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

4. Pentheus holds what title?
(a) King.
(b) Priest.
(c) Philosopher.
(d) Ruler.

5. Wildness and _________ are synonymous with the worship of Dionysus.
(a) Steadiness.
(b) Calmness.
(c) Holiness.
(d) Stoicness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Pentheus's mother at the beginning of the play?

2. What "enriches with his waters a fair land of steeds?"

3. Who is the writer of this play?

4. Pentheus says that he will do what to the women he has captured?

5. According to the Chorus, the end of all unbridled speech would bring what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Euripides suggesting by having the Chorus take Dionysus's side?

2. How do Dionysus and Pentheus use the women?

3. What is the message of the final scene of the play?

4. Who does Pentheus see when he looks at Dionysus?

5. What was the wish Zeus granted Semele?

6. What are Tiresius and Cadmus feeling when they are getting ready to go worship Dionysus?

7. How is the worship of Dionysus described in the Parados?

8. What is Pentheus's disguise when he leaves the palace?

9. What is the Chorus extolling in the first ode?

10. What is the thyrsus?

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