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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In The Clouds, what does the Second Creditor look like?
(a) A younger, strapping lad.
(b) Same age, fatter than the first.
(c) An older, but healthy man.
(d) A younger, bruised man.

2. What does The Chorus of The Clouds predict about Strepsiades after this encounter with the Second Creditor?
(a) Strepsiades will get out of all of his debt.
(b) Strepsiades will be very proud of his son.
(c) Strepsiades will come into some money.
(d) Strepsiades will be broken-hearted.

3. How is Right dressed in Part 3 of The Clouds?
(a) An old man in dated but luxurious clothing.
(b) An adolescent with a hen.
(c) A robust soldier from a distant land.
(d) An unhealthy young man who smirks.

4. How does Strepsiades eventually get rid of the Second Creditor?
(a) Strepsiades talks himself out of the debt.
(b) Strepsiades assults the Second Creditor.
(c) The Second Creditor gives up.
(d) Strepsiades pays his debt.

5. Wrong tells Pheidippides not to listen to Right because he will grow up and be what?
(a) Unable to communicate.
(b) Smarter than everyone.
(c) Liked by too many people.
(d) A boring little baby.

6. Strepsiades goes back to The Thinkery to check and see if Pheidippides is ready. Who answers the door?
(a) The Student.
(b) Socrates.
(c) The Chours of Clouds
(d) Pheidippides.

7. What day does Strepsiades tell Pheidippides he owes the creditors money?
(a) Old and New Day.
(b) Dark and Light Day.
(c) Night and Day Day.
(d) Past and Present Day.

8. The Men's leader must give up onions in order to do what?
(a) Fit in his robes.
(b) Enter the temple.
(c) Win the war.
(d) Kiss Stratyllis.

9. As quoted in Lysistrata, complete Euripides' statement. "There is no beast so shameless as a ____"?
(a) Pig.
(b) Woman.
(c) Man.
(d) Child.

10. In Part 1, Calonice tells Lysistrata that Athenians can always be relied on to be what?
(a) Early.
(b) Athletic.
(c) Late.
(d) Fast.

11. When the Choruses of Old Men and Old Women confront each other after the temporary defeat, the Old Men tell a tale of a man named what?
(a) Heracles.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Melanion.
(d) Perecles.

12. As they fighting goes on between the Choruses, who "accepts defeat for the time being"?
(a) The Chorus of Old Men.
(b) Stratyllis.
(c) Lampito.
(d) The Chorus of Old Women.

13. The women assembled are all ready to do anything to end the war except what?
(a) Cut themselves in two.
(b) Walk through fire.
(c) Renounce sex.
(d) Sell everything they own.

14. In Lysistrata, after the women swear the oath and go to the Acropolis, who enters the stage?
(a) The Chorus of Old Men.
(b) Lampito.
(c) The Chorus of Women.
(d) Reconciliation.

15. In Part 3 of Lysistrata, what moves the first woman to exit the temple and face the Magistrate to do so?
(a) She went on her own free will.
(b) The men told her the gods would strike her down.
(c) The men started to smoke out the women.
(d) The men took a crowbar to the door.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Lysistrata, what do the women carry with them to meet the Chorus of Old Men?

2. Lysistrata comes out from the Acropolis and meets Stratyllis, how does she act?

3. In Lysistrata, what are the men going to do with the first woman to exit the temple?

4. In Lysistrata, a sure sign of courage is, according to the Men, what?

5. How does one woman pretend to be pregnant in order to go home in Part 4 of Lysistrata?

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