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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Dikaiopolis finally get the Chorus of Acharnians to listen to his side of the story?
(a) He makes his wife throw stones from the roof.
(b) He threatens to kill a baby.
(c) He holds the Chorus of Acharnians at knifepoint.
(d) He threatens to kill a basket of coals.

2. 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) Avoid paying interest.
(d) Make interest back.

3. What does Lysistrata suggest the Magistrate and all the men do?
(a) Listen to the women but put in their opinions, too.
(b) Listen to the women and keep quiet, as they used to do.
(c) Stay in charge. Keep the status quo.
(d) Listen to the women, but do what they think is best.

4. In The Clouds, who is the protagonist's son?
(a) Chaerephon.
(b) Strepsiades.
(c) Pheidippides.
(d) Socrates.

5. Who is the leader of The Chorus of Old Women in Lysistrata?
(a) Myrrhine.
(b) Lampito.
(c) Stratyllis.
(d) Calonice.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Athenian women of Lysistrata are impressed with Lampito's what?

2. At the very end of the play, what do the women have for the men in the Acropolis?

3. As quoted in Lysistrata, complete Euripides' statement. "There is no beast so shameless as a ____"?

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

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

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