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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. What does Dionysus strike down with lightning?
(a) The city.
(b) The palace.
(c) The trees.
(d) The fortress.

2. In the Phoenician Women, who does Ares seek revenge against?
(a) Cadmus.
(b) Creon.
(c) Eteocles.
(d) Oedipus.

3. Who did Zeus hide Dionysus from as a child?
(a) Hera.
(b) Pentheus.
(c) Artemis.
(d) Semele.

4. What does Electra chide her husband for after the messenger has appeared?
(a) Abusing her.
(b) Mistrusting her.
(c) Not feeding her.
(d) Raping her.

5. Clytemnestra claim's she only avenged whose death?
(a) Her mother's.
(b) Her husband's.
(c) Her daughter's.
(d) Her son's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the wife of Laius?

2. Who does Oedipus marry?

3. What does the chorus do in Electra when Orestes is discovered?

4. Who does Orestes tell Aegisthus that he and his party are?

5. Who attacks with spears, but is fought off by the Thebian army in The Phoenician Women?

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