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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. Who throws off a cloak at the end of the debate between Right and Wrong, running out into the audience wearing female clothing?

2. The Athenian women of Lysistrata are impressed with Lampito's what?

3. The Women tell a story of Timon to the Men. According to the women, Timon hated men. What didn't Timon hate?

4. In Lysistrata, what are the women going to do with the money in the temple?

5. What does The Chorus of The Clouds predict about Strepsiades after this encounter with the Second Creditor?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lysistrata rally the women?

2. How do the Choruses react to the scene between Cinesias and Myrrhine?

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

4. How has The Chorus of The Clouds changed throughout the play?

5. What do The Chorus of Old Men's pots symbolize?

6. Describe Cinesias.

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

8. Describe how Strepsiades finally gets Pheidippides to attend The Thinkery.

9. Describe the Magistrate in Part 3 of Lysistrata.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

War and peace are topics discussed at length in Aristophanes plays. Discuss how their concepts change in the series of plays and what Aristophanes overall message is to Athens.

Essay Topic 2

How is the majority of conflict resolved in Ancient Greece? In Aristophanes's work, name a conflict, no matter how large or small, in each of the three plays and talk about how it develops and how it is resolved.

Essay Topic 3

Aristophanes, as well as many other playwrights, has included historical figures in his work. As we know, Euripidies was an actual tragic playwright, and he is a character in the play. However, Cleon is another example of a real historical figure, though he is never represented onstage. Do you think fictional works affect how historical figures are presented, and if so, does it have a positive or negative effect on the person? Compare and contrast how you see Euripidies's, Cleon's, and Socrates's personalities today, and give evidence to support your conclusions.

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