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The Acharnians [and] the Clouds [and] Lysistrata | Quiz

Aristophanes
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The Acharnians [and] the Clouds [and] Lysistrata | Quiz

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1)

The Third Messenger announces what? (from The Acharnians, Part 4)

Dikaiopolis is arrested.
It is time to drink wine.
The war is over.
Lamachus wounded his ankle.
2)

Cinesias and the Herald arrange what event in Part 5 of Lysistrata? (from Lysistrata, Part 5)

A way to overcome the women with fire.
A meeting of delegates to negotiate peace.
Another surge to break into the temple.
A tactic to ignore the women until they give in, and then a counter-strike.
3)

Whose monologue opens The Clouds? (from The Clouds, Part 1)

Strepsiades.
Pheidippides.
Socrates.
Chaerephon.
4)

In the end of The Acharnians, Dikaiopolis claims he is keen to do what? (from The Acharnians, Part 4)

Cook for everyone else.
Continue selling in his market.
Share his peace.
Go to bed.
5)

How does Socrates appear for the first time in The Clouds? (from The Clouds, Part 1)

From the trap door, like a sneak.
From the audience, like a level-headed philosopher.
Airborne, like a god in tradegy.
Stage right, like an actor.
6)

What does Pheidippdes want to do with his father before Strepsiades brings out the rooster and hen? (from The Clouds, Part 3)

Go to school with him.
Get him certified insane or contact the undertaker.
Defend his father from the creditors.
Buy his father a horse.
7)

What does Cinesias understand from the Herald's report? (from Lysistrata, Part 5)

Women are deserting, the plan was useless.
Men in other cities are overtaking the women.
Men are sending in women from other countries.
All of the women in Greece are in on it.
8)

What do the men use to stake out their claims on Greece as they negotiate peace? (from Lysistrata, Part 5)

A map of Greece
Lines in the sand.
Reconciliation.
Apples and oranges.
9)

When Strepsiades returns home from the school, Strepsiades tells Pheidippdes someone doesn't exist. Who is that? (from The Clouds, Part 2)

Cleon.
Socrates.
Peace.
Zeus.
10)

In The Clouds, who is the protagonist's son? (from The Clouds, Part 1)

Chaerephon.
Socrates.
Pheidippides.
Strepsiades.
11)

After The Chorus of Old Men get to the Acropolis, they blow on their coals. What happens? (from Lysistrata, Part 2)

The coals fell out of their pots on the way.
The coals blow away.
The coals went out.
Smoke blows in their faces, twice.
12)

Wrong tells Pheidippides not to listen to Right because he will grow up and be what? (from The Clouds, Part 3)

A boring little baby.
Liked by too many people.
Smarter than everyone.
Unable to communicate.
13)

According to Socrates, why does a gnat make a humming noise? (from The Clouds, Part 1)

The speed of its wings produce a sound.
Wind goes straight through its intestinal passage. It's a gnat fart.
It's a mating call.
That's just the sound it makes.
14)

How do Stratyllis and the Men's Leader and their followers get ready to fight? (from Lysistrata, Part 3)

They take their clothes off.
They stretch and warm-up.
They assemble weapons.
They grease up.
15)

Lamachus requests what at the end of the play, The Acharnians? (from The Acharnians, Part 4)

Be carried home.
Be brougut back to battle.
To share a drink with Dikaiopolis.
Be taken to the doctor.
16)

The women assembled are all ready to do anything to end the war except what? (from Lysistrata, Part 1)

Renounce sex.
Sell everything they own.
Cut themselves in two.
Walk through fire.
17)

After the Magistrate runs off to "show his colleagues" what the women did to him, who comes out on stage? (from Lysistrata, Part 3)

The Choruses.
Calonice.
Lysistrata.
Myrrhine.
18)

What does The Chorus of The Clouds predict about Strepsiades after this encounter with the Second Creditor? (from The Clouds, Part 4)

Strepsiades will come into some money.
Strepsiades will be very proud of his son.
Strepsiades will be broken-hearted.
Strepsiades will get out of all of his debt.
19)

The Women tell a story of Timon to the Men. According to the women, Timon hated men. What didn't Timon hate? (from Lysistrata, Part 4)

Animals.
Women.
Children.
Society.
20)

Who comes out with Lysistrata to speak with the men at the end of the play? (from Lysistrata, Part 5)

Athena.
Reconciliation.
Demeter.
Aphrodite.
21)

Who does The Chorus of Clouds tell Strepsiades to send to the school in his stead? (from The Clouds, Part 2)

Cleon.
Zeus.
Socrates.
Pheidippdes.
22)

Why is Myrrhine late for Lysistrata's meeting? (from Lysistrata, Part 1)

She had trouble finding her waistband in the dark.
She had to bathe and feed the baby.
She had to make breakfast.
She slept in.
23)

Who provides the rules for Right and Wrong's argument? (from The Clouds, Part 3)

Pheidippides.
Strepsiades.
The Chorus Leader.
Socrates.
24)

What is Lysistrata going to do to enforce her ban in Athens? (from Lysistrata, Part 1)

Hold the women hostage.
Go on a starvation strike.
Occupy The Acropolis.
Steal money from the temple to bribe the women.
25)

What does the champion of Pitcher Day win? (from The Acharnians, Part 4)

A full wine-skin.
Many dancing girls.
Peace.
A basket of food.
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