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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Bacchae, pages 179-200.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who delivers the opening speech of exposition in The Bacchae?
(a) Semele.
(b) Agave.
(c) The chorus.
(d) Dionysus.

2. Dionysus leads Pentheus away, saying that who will bring him back in her arms?
(a) Himself.
(b) Agave.
(c) Ios.
(d) Athena.

3. When the wild women scratch at the ground, what appears, in The Bacchae?
(a) Water and fire.
(b) Fire.
(c) Milk and honey.
(d) Locusts.

4. Who does Electra say was NOT properly buried?
(a) Iphegenia.
(b) Aegisthus.
(c) Clytemnestra.
(d) Agamemnon.

5. What does Electra have upon hear head when she first enters the play?
(a) A tiara.
(b) A water jug.
(c) A crown.
(d) A wig.

Short Answer Questions

1. What natural disaster does Dionysus call forth in The Bacchae?

2. Clytemnestra claim's she only avenged whose death?

3. What does Electra's husband say that it's improper for Electra to do?

4. Who does the messenger tell Creon is dead near the end of The Phoenician Women?

5. What does Aegisthus throw on the altar when with Orestes?

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