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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Chorus of Men complaining about when they enter the second part?
(a) Their desires.
(b) Their work.
(c) Their knees.
(d) The women.

2. The Male and Female Chorus Leaders argue about who has the right to ____________, men or women.
(a) Wealth.
(b) Peace.
(c) Violence.
(d) Happiness.

3. The Male Leader says that by taking the lead in the battle, he takes his place alongside the great ___________ of Athenian history.
(a) Gods.
(b) Saints.
(c) Martyrs.
(d) Heroes.

4. Who is the big strapping woman who arrives in time for Lysistrata's meeting of the women of the area?
(a) Lampito.
(b) Boiotia.
(c) Kleonike.
(d) Myrrhine.

5. The men think the women's plan is a cover for a plan by _________ to empty the Athenian Treasury.
(a) Sparta.
(b) Rome.
(c) Naples.
(d) Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lysistrata points out that she wants women to gain ______________ through making themselves pretty.

2. The Female Leader mocks the ____________ passed by men after the women remove another layer of clothes.

3. The Commissioner gives a speech about how women use their _________________.

4. What does the Male Leader do to the Female Leader to cause her to lash out initially?

5. Who is the well-off young woman who decides to attend the meeting Lysistrata has called?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when the Male Leader talks about the injuries that have been done to them?

2. What does Kinesias plead for when he is talking to Lysistrata during this scene?

3. How does Lysistrata conclude her final statement to the Athenians and Spartans?

4. Why is Lysistrata pacing at the start of the play during the opening scene?

5. What does Lysistrata remind the Commissioner when the women overwhelm the officers at the Akropolis?

6. What do the Chorus of Men believe the women's plot is actually just a cover for?

7. What does Kinesias say about the condition of the baby that the slave is carrying?

8. What does the Commissioner credit with helping the talks that have taken place in the Akropolis?

9. What does Lysistrata say that she and all the other women have already heard of Kinesias?

10. What does the Male Leader say to the men as they are walking into the scene?

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