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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who reassures Lysistrata that the women will show up for the meeting she has called?

2. The _________ vow to fight with real, physical strength in the battle between the men and the women.

3. Lysistrata believes the women will make themselves so pretty that the men will not want to _____________.

4. What is the Chorus of Men complaining about when they enter the second part?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the story the Female Chorus tells in rebuttal of the men's story about the hunter?

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

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

4. What does the Chorus of Women reveal about the way they are dressed?

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

6. What do the Chorus of Men believe the women's plot is actually just a cover for?

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

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

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

10. What is the story of the hunter that the Male Chorus tells in verse?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There are a number of different points at which Aristophanes uses symbolism in his play.

Part 1: What do you think the symbolism of the men carrying wood and fire is? Why?

Part 2: What do you think the symbolism of the women carrying water in pitchers is? Why?

Part 3: How might the scene in which the women douse the men with water be interpreted on a symbolic level? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Quite often in this play, there are double entendres included in order to continue to support the discussion of sex and its power.

Part 1: Why do you think the play continues to use double entendres as the action reveals itself?

Part 2: Why do you think double entendres are used in modern society?

Part 3: Why do you think sex can not be spoken of plainly in the play and in the modern world?

Essay Topic 3

War is another of the many themes touched upon in the play "Lysistrata." The men are battling and the women begin to battle the men.

Part 1: Why is war such an important part of Greek society?

Part 2: Do you think a society will ever be able to abstain from war completely? Why or why not?

Part 3: Why do you think war is such an important part of the world today? Or is it?

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