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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pheidippdes want to do with his father before Strepsiades brings out the rooster and hen?
(a) Go to school with him.
(b) Get him certified insane or contact the undertaker.
(c) Defend his father from the creditors.
(d) Buy his father a horse.

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

3. Socrates and Strepsiades brainstorm ways that Strepsiades can what?
(a) Sleep in a bed full of bugs.
(b) Trick his son into learning rhetoric.
(c) Make interest back.
(d) Avoid paying interest.

4. Who did Lysistrata expect to be at her meeting first?
(a) The Acharnians.
(b) The Spartians.
(c) The Megarians.
(d) The Clouds.

5. According to Socrates, why does a gnat make a humming noise?
(a) The speed of its wings produce a sound.
(b) That's just the sound it makes.
(c) Wind goes straight through its intestinal passage. It's a gnat fart.
(d) It's a mating call.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Strepsiades returns home from the school, Strepsiades tells Pheidippdes someone doesn't exist. Who is that?

2. What does Right talk about in his big speech, debating with Wrong?

3. In The Clouds, who is "the bravest man that has performed the greatest number of labors"?

4. In the beginning of The Acharnians, who arrives late to the assembly and speaks to the crowd first?

5. What does the champion of Pitcher Day win?

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