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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The men vow they will fight ______________ the same way they fought in the wars.
(a) The government.
(b) The women.
(c) The priests.
(d) Their desires.

2. The Male and Female Chorus Leaders argue about who has the right to ____________, men or women.
(a) Wealth.
(b) Peace.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Violence.

3. The Chorus of Men appears, carrying a pot containing ___________ and branches of wood.
(a) Wine.
(b) Fire.
(c) Ash.
(d) Oil.

4. Lysistrata talks about unraveling the political and military situation in the city the same way one would unravel __________.
(a) Cotton.
(b) Wool.
(c) Vines.
(d) Grass.

5. Lysistrata does add that if the men ____________, then the women can go ahead, but take no pleasure in it.
(a) Insist.
(b) Harm them.
(c) Say they will divorce them.
(d) Leave.

6. The Chorus of Men take off their ________, revealing they are ready for battle.
(a) Cloaks.
(b) Pants.
(c) Helmets.
(d) Armor.

7. What does Lysistrata say the women will do for the men, which angers the Commissioner?
(a) Seduce them.
(b) Kill them.
(c) Rescue them.
(d) Overpower them.

8. The men think the women's plan is a cover for a plan by _________ to empty the Athenian Treasury.
(a) Rome.
(b) Paris.
(c) Naples.
(d) Sparta.

9. The Commissioner says he refuses to be told to be quiet by someone wearing a ___________.
(a) Dress.
(b) Veil.
(c) Sword.
(d) Bra.

10. _______________ tells Lysistrata that a peace oath can not be sworn on the item from #28.
(a) Lampito.
(b) Kleonike.
(c) Myrrhine.
(d) Boiotia.

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

12. The Chorus of Women point out that the men have left Athens with ___________.
(a) Ruins.
(b) Ash.
(c) Terror.
(d) Nothing.

13. The women urge themselves to have ____________ as they approach the men.
(a) Committment.
(b) Courage.
(c) Peace.
(d) Power.

14. Lysistrata tells the Commissioner to come back in a few days as they will make sure he is properly ___________.
(a) Informed.
(b) Humiliated.
(c) Shorn.
(d) Buried.

15. The Male Leader asks the Commissioner to arrest Lysistrata and the rest of the women in the name of ____________.
(a) Mars.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Male honor.
(d) Their families.

Short Answer Questions

1. _____________ says she will bring he men of Sparta over to her plan, and then the plan can be extended.

2. What do the women fling at the men in order to douse their aggression?

3. Lysistrata explains that the women must make themselves as _____________ as they can.

4. The Commissioner talks about how they have allowed their women too much ______________.

5. Lysistrata admits that her plan also includes taking over ___________ Temple and the Akropolis.

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