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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 does the Male Leader do to the Female Leader when he approaches her?
(a) Hits her.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Trips her.
(d) Kisses her.

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

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

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

5. Who appears with the four police officers at the start of this part of the play?
(a) Zeus.
(b) President.
(c) Athene.
(d) Commissioner.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has seized the Treasury so the Commissioner cannot go through with his deal?

2. When the man becomes ___________, Lysistrata says that the woman should refuse to go all the way.

3. Lysistrata speaks to the Chorus of Women, telling them to rise up and claim their ___________.

4. What does the Female Leader notice from the men's pots so she tells the women to stop?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the Male Leader remind the Chorus of men to do with the pot and the wood?

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

5. Why does Kinesias think that Myrrhine should be ashamed of herself?

6. What does the Male Leader say to the men as they are walking into the scene?

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

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

9. What does the Male Leader do when he approaches the Female Leader?

10. What does Lysistrata reveal to the Female Leader when she asks Lysistrata what is wrong?

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