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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. What is making the men in the Chorus choke as they are trying to reach the temple?
(a) The food they cooked.
(b) Smoke from the fire.
(c) Their own smell.
(d) The oil smell.

2. To whom do the Women pray in order to have strength and guidance?
(a) Hera.
(b) Artemis.
(c) Riyana
(d) Athene.

3. As the wine is poured, the women in the group comment about how much it looks like _____________.
(a) Soup.
(b) Tears.
(c) Sweat.
(d) Blood.

4. The Female Leaders talks about having invested her _________ in the life and worth of Athens.
(a) Husband.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Daughters.
(d) Sons.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. ____________ says she has no concerns with making this plan work with the men of Sparta.

3. Lysistrata begins the meeting by asking the women how they feel about their men being ___________.

4. Lysistrata says that she has been thinking about the state of ___________ for a long time.

5. In thoughts of what does Kleonike begin to lose herself when she is talking with Lysistrata?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Lysistrata remind the Commissioner when the women overwhelm the officers at the Akropolis?

3. What does Kinesias have to share when he comes out of the temple, though he first talks like a Spartan?

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

5. What does Kinesias say about the condition of the baby that the slave is carrying?

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

7. What does Myrrhine tell Kinesias as she appears on the roof to talk to him?

8. What happens when the Commissioner orders the officers to pry open the doors to the Akropolis?

9. What does Lysistrata confess she has been thinking about when Kleonike asks her why she called the meeting?

10. Who is Kinesias followed by when he comes into the Temple?

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