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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What city do Eulipides and Pisthetaerus want to leave at the beginning of Birds?
(a) Sparta.
(b) Corinth.
(c) Tripoli.
(d) Athens.

2. What way does Dionysus choose to use to enter Hades?
(a) He swims across.
(b) Go the long way across the river.
(c) He goes back home.
(d) He waits for his master.

3. How does the play Lysistrata end?
(a) The women go back to their husbands willingly.
(b) Sparta invades Athens.
(c) Athens invades Sparta.
(d) Spartans and Athenians share a banquet celebrating peace.

4. Who attends the meeting organized by Lysistrata?
(a) Athens' constables.
(b) Athens' parliament.
(c) The men of Athens.
(d) The women of Greece.

5. In Thesmophoriazusae, what did Mnesilochus' cousin agree to do in order to rescue his cousin?
(a) To write a tragedy.
(b) To do Chores.
(c) To not write anything bad about women again.
(d) To commit suicide.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Pisthetaerus going to take control of at the end of The Birds?

2. When Dionysus arrives in Hades, who is Euripides in conflict with?

3. Where are Mnesilochus and his cousin going to at the beginning of Thesmophoriazusae?

4. In The Assemblywomen, what do Blepyros and the other men find out in the morning?

5. In Thesmophoriazusae, how did the women try to uncover the spy during the court proceedings?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Lysistrata convening the meeting and what is discussed?

2. What crime does Mnesilochus admit committing as a woman?

3. Why are Dionysus and Xanthias visiting Dionysus's half-brother in The Frogs?

4. What society do women in The Assemblywomen plan on instating after voting to put themselves in charge of Athens?

5. What does Lysistrata find some of the women trying to do?

6. How do Pisthetaerus and the birds subdue the gods?

7. What is Pisthetaerus' plan for gaining control over earth and heaven?

8. In The Birds, what happens to Eulipides and Pisthetaerus after they eat the root given by Hoopoe?

9. How does Euripides rescue Mnesilochus after his arrest?

10. How is the life of a young man as a result of the new regime in The Assemblywomen?

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