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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 pair enter from the school as Strepsiades instructs Socrates what to teach Pheidippides?

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

3. In Part 1, Calonice tells Lysistrata that Athenians can always be relied on to be what?

4. How is Right dressed in Part 3 of The Clouds?

5. As The Chorus of Old Men slowly get their fires going, who runs to the scene?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the pitchers carried by The Chorus of Old Women represent?

2. What does dressing the Magistrate as a woman symbolize?

3. How does The Clouds end?

4. After his education, what does Pheidippides consider acceptable in regard to his relationships with his parents?

5. Describe the second meeting of the Choruses in Lysistrata.

6. Describe the first confrontation between the Choruses of Men and Women in Lysistrata.

7. How are the women reacting to the sex strike? What does this say about the women?

8. Describe Cinesias.

9. In the past, how did the women of Lysistrata feel about the political blunders of their husbands? How did they deal with it?

10. Compare and contrast Calonice and Myrrhine.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Some of the situations and ideas expressed by Aristophanes throughout his work may come across today as offensive. Keeping in mind the range of things people find comedic today, talk about what those situations were and why they were historically considered fodder for comedy. In short, what did Ancient Greece find funny, and how have we changed?

Essay Topic 2

Talk about the use of the fourth wall in Aristophanes's work. What is it and why is it important? Give specific examples from the three plays.

Essay Topic 3

Talk about the two major kinds of male-to-male relationships that were common in Ancient Greece.

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