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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Dikaiopolis make peace?
(a) He sends his son as an ambassador.
(b) He pours some wine on the ground.
(c) He gives his life in service to the Spartians.
(d) He signs several treaties.

2. What does the champion of Pitcher Day win?
(a) A full wine-skin.
(b) Many dancing girls.
(c) A basket of food.
(d) Peace.

3. The Chorus of The Clouds assures Strepsiades that although his studies may be bizarre, he will come into good fortune. After that, they take a break to make an interjection glorifying a particular playwright. Who do they praise and defend?
(a) Aeschylus.
(b) Aristophanes.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Euripides.

4. What does Diakiopolis do with the peace after he takes it home?
(a) Hides it in his cellar.
(b) Makes an offering to Dionysus.
(c) Shares it with everybody.
(d) Buries it in the ground.

5. Who does Strepsiades complain to while he is supposed to be sleeping?
(a) Chaerephon.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Phieidippides.
(d) The Chorus of Clouds.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 1, Calonice tells Lysistrata that Athenians can always be relied on to be what?

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

3. What does Socrates tell Strepsiades about Pheidippides's progress?

4. How much longer after the second ambassador does the assembly stay open?

5. What does The Chorus of Acharnians cry when the first pitcher is finished?

(see the answer key)

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