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

2. What is Aegisthus preparing to offer the goddess Nymphs in Electra?
(a) A slaughtered lamb.
(b) A slaughtered dragon.
(c) A slaughtered bull.
(d) A slaughtered virgin.

3. Who kills Agamemnon?
(a) Orestes and Electra.
(b) Antigone.
(c) Clytemnestra and Aegisthus.
(d) Iphegenia.

4. Who walks around Orestes looking at him in the cottage?
(a) Aegisthus.
(b) Electra.
(c) Jocasta.
(d) The servant.

5. Who enters with Antigone in her first entrance in The Phoenician Women?
(a) Teiresius.
(b) Polyneices.
(c) Jocasta.
(d) The pedagogue.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Pentheus' mother?

2. Who is killed in sacrifice for the Trojan War?

3. What does Electra ask her husband to get for them?

4. To whose daughter is Polyneices married?

5. Who does Zeus strike down from the gate with lightning in the battle of The Phoenician Women?

(see the answer key)

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