In a play by this author, a king is convinced to crossdress in order to spy on a group of women who had used their thyrsi to draw milk and honey from the ground. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author of a play in which a woman believes she has ripped a mountain lion to pieces, but realizes it was actually her son. Another of his plays ends as the title character flees on a divine chariot pulled by dragons.
ANSWER: Euripides (The plays are The Bacchae and Medea.)
[10h] Give this three-word term that describes certain countries, depending on their total output and level of trade, whose interest rates are determined entirely by international capital markets.
ANSWER: small open economies [or SOE, reject partial answers]
[10e] The title women of Euripides’s The Bacchae comprise this homogeneous group of performers. Ancient Greek plays often include this group of characters, who speak as one to provide information or comment on the action.
ANSWER: Greek chorus [or chorós]
[10e] Policymakers within small open economies may intentionally lower this value to increase exports in a policy known as depreciation. This value is the proportion at which one currency can be converted into another.
ANSWER: exchange rate
[10h] The war between Polyneices and Eteocles prevents a group of pilgrims from making it to Delphi in this other Euripides play, whose title also refers to its chorus.
ANSWER: The Phoenician Women [or Phoinissai]
[10m] Because small open economies are price-takers of interest rates, their assets face this sort of demand. This demand curve is represented by a horizontal line on a supply-and-demand graph.
ANSWER: perfectly elastic demand [or infinitely elastic demand; prompt on elastic demand]
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