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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. Who reassures Lysistrata that the women will show up for the meeting she has called?
(a) Kleonike.
(b) Athene.
(c) Boiotia.
(d) Lampito.

2. Lysistrata notes that when women offered suggestions, they were told to be ____________.
(a) Subservient.
(b) Quiet.
(c) Louder.
(d) Obedient.

3. ____________ says she has no concerns with making this plan work with the men of Sparta.
(a) Kleonike.
(b) Myrrhine.
(c) Lampito.
(d) Lysistrata.

4. _____________ says she will bring he men of Sparta over to her plan, and then the plan can be extended.
(a) Boiotia.
(b) Kleonike.
(c) Lysistrata.
(d) Myrrhine.

5. The Commissioner gives a speech about how women use their _________________.
(a) Perfumes.
(b) Voices.
(c) Bodies.
(d) Sexual wiles.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Commissioner says he refuses to be told to be quiet by someone wearing a ___________.

2. The Chorus of Men remove another layer of clothing to give the women a whiff of _____________.

3. What can be heard as the two women pass a goblet back and forth?

4. What does the Commissioner tell the officers to use in order to pry open the doors to the Akropolis?

5. What do the women remove in order to show that they too are dressed for battle?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Female Leader suggest now that peace is at hand, which the Male Leader initially refuses?

2. What kinds of crude jokes does the Commissioner make to the Messenger from Sparta?

3. What do Kleonike and some of the others complain about as they are waiting in the Temple?

4. What does the Male Leader complain about after the Commissioner decides to try to create peace?

5. What is the Messenger from Sparta trying to conceal underneath his cloak when he walks in?

6. What does the Female Leader do to the Male Leader when he threatens her?

7. Why can't the Commissioner complete a deal with the Athenian fleet to outfit the fleet with wood?

8. What does Lysistrata tell the Spartans and the Athenians to do when they all come out of the Temple?

9. What does the Old Man have to say about the hunter in the story that they have told?

10. What does Kinesias plead for when he is talking to Lysistrata during this scene?

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