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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Dionysus avoiding conflict with the characters that mistake him for Heracles?
(a) He does not.
(b) He flies.
(c) He hides.
(d) He trades clothes with Xanthias.

2. What are the women preparing for at the beginning of Thesmophoriazusae?
(a) To put Mnesilochus' cousin on trial for depicting women badly in his plays.
(b) To debate on women issues.
(c) To put Mnesilochus on trial for infidelity.
(d) To put Agathon on trial for dressing like a woman.

3. Who takes the place of "Best Tragic poet" at Hades' table at the end of The Frogs?
(a) Sophocles.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Euripides.
(d) Plato.

4. How is the disagreement between Euripides and his opponent settled?
(a) Dionysus asks each of them to create a new poem.
(b) Dionysus asks each of them to give advice on how to help Athens.
(c) Dionysus asks each of them to dance.
(d) Dionysus asks each of them to try seducing a woman.

5. What does the visitor from Sparta want?
(a) To talk peace with Athens.
(b) To purchase cheese.
(c) To offer trading women.
(d) To declare war.

6. In The Assemblywomen, what do Blepyros and the other men find out in the morning?
(a) Parliament turned over the power to Sparta.
(b) That the women left the city.
(c) Parliament turned over power to the women.
(d) That the men need to wear dresses.

7. In Thesmophoriazusae, what do the women try to do to Mnesilochus to confirm that he is a man?
(a) Kill him.
(b) Imprison him.
(c) Undress him.
(d) Expel him from the assembly.

8. How do Eulipides and Pisthetaerus think the gods can be supplanted?
(a) By building a castle between earth and heaven.
(b) By stealing Zeus' thunder.
(c) By dressing like birds.
(d) By stealing fire from men.

9. What is Praxagora's plan at the beginning of The Assemblywomen?
(a) To violently take control of parliament.
(b) To leave town with all the women.
(c) To come early to the Athenian parliament to take a majority of seats.
(d) To blackmail politicians.

10. What question do Eulipides and Pisthetaerus want to ask at the beginning of The Birds?
(a) Where they can find a quiet place to live.
(b) Where Hoopoe lives.
(c) The answer to the Sphinx riddle.
(d) What the meaning of life is.

11. Who do the men see women, according to Lysistrata?
(a) Stupid.
(b) Unfaithful.
(c) As rascals.
(d) Quiet.

12. What is Praxagora lamenting at the start of The Assemblywomen?
(a) The lack of love.
(b) The lack of entertainment.
(c) The lack of good men.
(d) The ineffective and ruinous ruling by the men.

13. Who ferries Dionysus across the river in Hades?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Xanthias.
(c) Charon.
(d) Hades.

14. In Thesmophoriazusae, who conducts Mnesilochus' interrogation during the proceedings?
(a) Micca.
(b) Agathon.
(c) Cleisthenes.
(d) The vendor.

15. Who arrives in the city after the chorus of men commiserates with Cinesias?
(a) A Spartan woman.
(b) A Spartan governor.
(c) A Spartan merchant.
(d) A Spartan herald.

Short Answer Questions

1. What river does Dionysus go across?

2. In Thesmophoriazusae, what did Mnesilochus' cousin agree to do in order to rescue his cousin?

3. How did Mnesilochus' cousin try to free him at the end of Thesmophoriazusae?

4. In Thesmophoraizusae, who speaks for the prosecution in the case against Euripides?

5. Who attends the meeting organized by Lysistrata?

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