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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lysistrata, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pheidippdes want to do with his father before Strepsiades brings out the rooster and hen?
(a) Buy his father a horse.
(b) Defend his father from the creditors.
(c) Go to school with him.
(d) Get him certified insane or contact the undertaker.

2. The Third Messenger announces what?
(a) It is time to drink wine.
(b) The war is over.
(c) Lamachus wounded his ankle.
(d) Dikaiopolis is arrested.

3. In The Clouds, what does the First Creditor look like?
(a) He is very handsome.
(b) He is very thin.
(c) He is very fat.
(d) He is very pale.

4. Strepsiades tells the First Creditor he would make a very good what?
(a) Table.
(b) Wine skin.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Model.

5. Who is the first woman to join Lysistrata?
(a) Lampito.
(b) Cinesias.
(c) Myrrhine.
(d) Calonice.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Dikaiopolis, who or what started the war?

2. Who eats Dikaiopolis's lunch?

3. What does Dikaiopolis want to do before his trial?

4. Who carries Nicharchus as the Thebian entourage leaves?

5. The Acharnians opens with a soliloquy by which character?

(see the answer key)

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