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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do The Chorus of Old Men carry onto the stage in their first appearance in Lysistrata?
(a) Wine, honey, and olives.
(b) Thrushes, axes, and spears.
(c) Olive wood logs, torches, and live coals.
(d) Ambrosia, nectar, and apples.

2. What is the name of the school Pheidippides is to attend?
(a) The Thoughtery.
(b) The Ruminator.
(c) The Thinkery.
(d) The Thinkerator.

3. Why is Myrrhine late for Lysistrata's meeting?
(a) She had to bathe and feed the baby.
(b) She slept in.
(c) She had to make breakfast.
(d) She had trouble finding her waistband in the dark.

4. Who does The Chorus of Clouds tell Strepsiades to send to the school in his stead?
(a) Pheidippdes.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Cleon.

5. How does Dikaiopolis help Dercetes?
(a) He doesn't.
(b) He gives him food.
(c) He shares the peace.
(d) He gives him wine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What's wrong with the Megarian's appearance?

2. Why does Pheidippides agree to go to learn rhetoric?

3. How does Dikaiopolis agree to speak his side to the Chorus of Acharnians?

4. Before the women took the Acropolis, the Magistrate had trouble with women. What did the last woman do to upset the Magistrate?

5. What is Strepsiades ordered to do as he lays in bed?

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