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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lysistrata suggests they all take ______________ to seal their bargain and their plan.
(a) A blood blessing.
(b) An oath.
(c) An offering.
(d) A piece of clothing off.

2. Who is the well-off young woman who decides to attend the meeting Lysistrata has called?
(a) Boiotia.
(b) Kleonike.
(c) Lampito.
(d) Myrrhine.

3. Lysistrata explains that the women must make themselves as _____________ as they can.
(a) Beautiful.
(b) Busy.
(c) Unavailable.
(d) Homely.

4. The Female Leader suggests the men have wasted the ___________ invested in peace by their grandfathers.
(a) Rules.
(b) Funds.
(c) Honor.
(d) Ideals.

5. The _______________ pour out of the temple, overwhelming the Commissioner and the men.
(a) Women.
(b) Children.
(c) Goddesses.
(d) Animals.

6. The Female Leader mocks the ____________ passed by men after the women remove another layer of clothes.
(a) Laws.
(b) Phalluses.
(c) Children.
(d) Gods.

7. Lysistrata is pacing at the start of the play, waiting for the women of ____________ to arrive.
(a) Rome.
(b) Athens.
(c) Cairo.
(d) Paris.

8. Who is NOT one of the women who complain that since the men have been at war, they've hardly been home at all?
(a) Lysistrata.
(b) Myrrhine.
(c) Lampito.
(d) Kleonike.

9. The women talk about how they have grown from __________ into powerful womanhood.
(a) Silence.
(b) Girlhood.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Ignorance.

10. What does the grabbing in #93 do to the Male Leader in the play?
(a) Kills him.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Makes him laugh.
(d) Tips him over.

11. What can be heard as the two women pass a goblet back and forth?
(a) Birds.
(b) Thunder.
(c) Fighting.
(d) Gods.

12. The only way that Greece can attain unity and ________ is if the women take control, according to Lysistrata.
(a) Humility.
(b) Peace.
(c) Power.
(d) Wealth.

13. Lysistrata admits that her plan also includes taking over ___________ Temple and the Akropolis.
(a) Athene's.
(b) Zeus'.
(c) Apollo's.
(d) Mars'.

14. Lampito does wonder about the men of ______________, though Sparta does seem to be reasonable.
(a) Athens.
(b) Paris.
(c) Cairo.
(d) Rome.

15. Who is the pretty young woman who arrives in time for Lysistrata's meeting of the women of the town?
(a) Myrrhine.
(b) Maria.
(c) Lampito.
(d) Kleonike.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Female Leaders talks about having invested her _________ in the life and worth of Athens.

2. When Lysistrata says they need one person to represent all the women in the oath, who is this person?

3. Lysistrata reminds the Commissioner to never underestimate the power of ____________.

4. The Commissioner condemns the Chorus for fighting in the _____________.

5. Lysistrata explains that her plan is to have the women abstain from ____________ in order to end the war.

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