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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Bacchae, pages 200-220.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Who does Electra call unfaithful, attractive to women, but a worthless coward underneath his pretty face?
(a) Pylades.
(b) Clytemnestra.
(c) Aegisthus.
(d) Orestes.

3. How did Orestes attain the mark the servant speaks of?
(a) He was dropped as a child.
(b) Chasing a fawn.
(c) He was shot with an arrow.
(d) He was born with it.

4. In what city-state does Clytemnestra rule?
(a) Athens.
(b) Thebes.
(c) Troy.
(d) Argos.

5. Polyneices, with his last breath, begs for what?
(a) To be buried in Argos.
(b) To be buried in Thebes.
(c) To be buried in Athens.
(d) For his wife to be queen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What appears when one of the wild women strikes a rock with a stick in The Bacchae?

2. Who will save Cadmus and his wife at the end, according to Dionysus, at the end of The Bacchae?

3. Where does The Phoenician Women take place?

4. Who walks around Orestes looking at him in the cottage?

5. How does Dionysus appear when he enters?

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