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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lysistrata, Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does The Chorus of Acharnians cry when the first pitcher is finished?
(a) Hurry all you others.
(b) Hail to the champion.
(c) Stone the winner.
(d) Fear strike the last to finish.

2. How does Socrates feel about teaching Pheidippides?
(a) Socrates thinks Pheidippides will be difficult to teach.
(b) Socrates refuses to take Pheidippides as a student in the school.
(c) Socrates thinks Pheidippides will be easy to teach.
(d) Socrates thinks Pheidippides will be exciting to teach.

3. What is the plan to get out the women occupying the Acropolis, according to the Men's Leader?
(a) Ask them to leave, or smoke them out.
(b) Ask them to leave, or set their homes on fire.
(c) Ask them to leave, or go on a sex strike.
(d) Aske them to leave, or burn all their gowns and robes at home.

4. Dercetes comes to Dikaiopolis's home, begging for what?
(a) Thrush.
(b) Peace.
(c) Lamp wicks.
(d) Rabbit.

5. Lamachus is faced with a surprise skirmish and needs peace, but Dikaiopolis has other plans. What are they?
(a) Dinner with the Priest of Dionysus.
(b) Clean up the mess from his cooking.
(c) To eat the dinner he prepared earlier.
(d) He wants to take a nap.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who provides the rules for Right and Wrong's argument?

2. How does Dikaiopolis help Dercetes?

3. At the end of The Acharnians, The Chorus of Acharnians decides to follow who offstage, thereby symbolically giving support to which way of life?

4. Who is the leader of The Chorus of Old Women in Lysistrata?

5. What does the champion of Pitcher Day win?

(see the answer key)

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