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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Bacchae, pages 155-179.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the setting for the opening of The Bacchae?
(a) A farm house.
(b) Apollo's shrine.
(c) A Dionysian altar.
(d) A palace.

2. How does Eteocles suggest they attack the opposing army?
(a) At noon.
(b) At dusk.
(c) At night.
(d) At dawn.

3. What kind of blade does Orestes use to skin the animal with Aegisthus?
(a) Trojan.
(b) Dorian.
(c) Curmean.
(d) Artemen.

4. Who kills the dragon that Ares has fathered?
(a) Oedipus.
(b) Teiresius.
(c) Eteocles.
(d) Cadmus.

5. Pentheus has heard of a trickster from where, claiming that Dionysus is a god?
(a) Athens.
(b) Troy.
(c) Lydia.
(d) Argos.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many gates surround Thebes?

2. Who has Agamemnon brought back as a concubine from the war?

3. Who appears in the heavens at the end of Electra?

4. Who does Teiresius say must die to save Thebes?

5. Who makes up the chorus in The Bacchae?

(see the answer key)

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