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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lysistrata, Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who throws off a cloak at the end of the debate between Right and Wrong, running out into the audience wearing female clothing?
(a) Pheidippides.
(b) Wrong.
(c) Right.
(d) Socrates.

2. The Chorus of Old Men primarily praise what, as they struggle to the Acropolis?
(a) Athenian Warriors.
(b) Athenian Food.
(c) The Gods.
(d) Athenian Women.

3. What is not a part of the costume Dikaiopolis assembles?
(a) Drinking cup, chipped at the rim.
(b) Floppy hat, rim falling off.
(c) Walking-stick.
(d) Wicker basket, burnt by a lamp.

4. Who poses as the eunuchs?
(a) Two dancing girls.
(b) Wrong and Right.
(c) Cleisthenes and Strato.
(d) Nobody, they are really eunuchs.

5. What did Dercetes lose?
(a) His job.
(b) His slaves.
(c) His oxen.
(d) His wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Socrates, why does a gnat make a humming noise?

2. What object does Lysistrata use as a metaphor to show how they will solve Greece's problems?

3. After the Magistrate runs off to "show his colleagues" what the women did to him, who comes out on stage?

4. What happens to Lamachus after he leaves Dikaiopolis to go fight?

5. What happens after Dikaiopolis finishes his defense?

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