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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lysistrata, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The women assembled are all ready to do anything to end the war except what?
(a) Sell everything they own.
(b) Cut themselves in two.
(c) Renounce sex.
(d) Walk through fire.

2. How many members of the Chorus of Acharnians have been elected to serve as an ambassador?
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) None.
(d) Three.

3. What is Dikaiopolis doing when he sees Lamachus return from battle?
(a) Singing bawdy songs.
(b) Playing music on the lute.
(c) Drinking with dancing girls.
(d) Dancing with his daughters.

4. Whose monologue opens The Clouds?
(a) Chaerephon.
(b) Strepsiades.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Pheidippides.

5. Who is the second ambassador in the assembly to speak?
(a) Dercetes.
(b) Theorus.
(c) Ismenias.
(d) Nicarchus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who poses as the eunuchs?

2. Pheidippides uses his education from The Thinkery to rationalize what?

3. What does the Bridegroom's Slave offer Dikaiopolis for just one ladle of peace?

4. What does Dikaiopolis give the Megarian for the girls?

5. What does Socrates try to teach Strepsiades?

(see the answer key)

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