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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. ____________ delivers a speech about how men have made a mess in the city for years as the women have sat by.
(a) Kleonike.
(b) Myrrhine.
(c) Lysistrata.
(d) Lampito.

2. Lysistrata tells the women to be calm and wait for the spirit of _________ to fill the men so the attack can really begin.
(a) War.
(b) Peace.
(c) Desire.
(d) Love.

3. Kleonike tells Lysistrata to be _______ as women are supposed to be good for only certain things.
(a) Humble.
(b) Quiet.
(c) Practical.
(d) Honest.

4. Lysistrata explains that her plan is to have the women abstain from ____________ in order to end the war.
(a) Temple.
(b) Hair brushing.
(c) Bathing.
(d) Sexual relations.

5. Lysistrata speaks to the Chorus of Women, telling them to rise up and claim their ___________.
(a) Money.
(b) Power.
(c) Children.
(d) Faith.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Lysistrata wraps the Commissioner up in a piece of __________ to represent a shroud.

3. The Male Leader asks the Commissioner to arrest Lysistrata and the rest of the women in the name of ____________.

4. Lysistrata complains to her friend that if there is a ____________, the women are there in a hurry.

5. The Commissioner goes into a story about how women fighting for their rights brings ______________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Kleonike tell Lysistrata that women are good for, and she says this is only practical to think this?

2. How do the men vow to fight the women, even though their bodies ache and the smoke makes them choke?

3. What does Lysistrata hear when she asks the women what they think of their men being at war?

4. Why do the Chorus of Men remove another layer of clothing, as they explain to the women?

5. What does Lysistrata say that she and all the other women have already heard of Kinesias?

6. What happens as Lysistrata talks to the Female Leader, proving her confession to the leader?

7. What happens when the Male Leader talks about the injuries that have been done to them?

8. What does Lysistrata think will happen if the women of Greece take control?

9. What does the Male Leader tell the rest of the Chorus they have to do in order to teach the women a lesson?

10. What does the Magistrate condemn the Chorus for doing at the start of this scene?

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