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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the least effective way Strepsiades comes up with evading his debt and the reason Socrates gives up?

2. When Strepsiades and Pheidippides arrive at the school for the first time together, who answers the door?

3. What is Socrates major complaint with Strepsiades when he is finally turned away from the school?

4. When the crier re-enters in Part 4 of The Acharnians to announce the trumpet signal to drink wine, what is Dikaiopolis doing?

5. How do Ismenias and the slaves pack Nicharus?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the outfit Dikaiopolis assembles for his defense.

2. What happens to the Chorus of Archanians when Diakaiopolis finishes his defense?

3. What is the Chorus of Acharnians's attitude toward Dikaiopolis and Lamachus at the end of the play?

4. What do all the bugs in The Thinkery suggest?

5. How does the Chorus of Acharnians feel about Dikaiopolis after the Megaran leaves?

6. What kind of student is Strepsiades?

7. In The Acharnians, what do you think the playwright is saying about the way of war and the way of peace as his overall message?

8. How does Dikaiopolis react when Dercetes asks him to share some of the peace?

9. Describe the Megarans. How are they depicted?

10. Dikaiopolis and Lamachus meet again just after Dikaiopolis shared a few drops of peace with the bride. What is notable about how their situations have changed since the beginning of the play?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the world Aristophanes weaves for us in The Acharnians, politics and satire are so wrapped up in each other they are almost impossible to separate. Why do these two concepts go so well together? What makes this work, and if you separated them, what would happen to the play? What about how politics are practiced in Lysistrata?

Essay Topic 2

Several other symbols, other than wine, are used in the three plays by Aristophanes. Pick three to describe and compare.

Essay Topic 3

The gods and goddesses are peppered through Aristophanes's work. Collect and describe the gods place in Athenian everyday life. Talk about the relationship between the gods and the people.

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