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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Dionysus was born, he was crowned with a coronal of what?

2. What are Tiresius and Cadmus wearing?

3. What is Semele?

4. When Dionysus speaks to Pentheus for the first time, Dionysus says that all foreigners celebrate his mysteries with what?

5. According to the Chorus, where did Pentheus put his prisoner?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Cadmus do when confronted with Agave carrying Pentheus's head?

2. What is the Parodos?

3. Why is the Chorus, even though it is similar to Pentheus, correct?

4. How are the Chorus and Pentheus similar?

5. What is the reason Dionysus came to Thebes?

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

7. What is being prayed for in the second choral ode?

8. What is the secret that Dionysus reveals to the audience in the Prologue but not to the other characters?

9. What did Agave do to Pentheus?

10. What is the thyrsus?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Dionysus influence Pentheus throughout the play? Does Dionysus's influence over Pentheus change as the play continues? Support your answer with examples from the play.

Essay Topic 2

Describe, using examples from the play, what role revenge has in the play and how revenge is portrayed.

Essay Topic 3

How is animal imagery used in the play? Provide at least three examples of animal imagery and what they represents.

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