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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Lysistrata, as she speaks to Stratylis, what are the women doing that upsets her so much?
(a) Eating too much.
(b) Deserting.
(c) Going on a hunger-strike.
(d) Looting the temple.

2. In Lysistrata, what are the women going to do with the money in the temple?
(a) Take care of it, run the city.
(b) Buy new husbands that aren't soldiers.
(c) Spend it on clothes.
(d) Give it to other cities to end the war.

3. At the end of The Acharnians, The Chorus of Acharnians decides to follow who offstage, thereby symbolically giving support to which way of life?
(a) Dikaiopolis.
(b) Nobody, they go their own way.
(c) The Third Messanger.
(d) Lamachus.

4. According to Dikaiopolis, who or what started the war?
(a) A difference in religion with the Megarians.
(b) The Spartians cutting down Athenian vines.
(c) A few drunk Athenian men kidnapped a woman.
(d) Pericles sent out thunder and lightning.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 5 of Lysistrata, when the male leaders assemble, what do they want to do?

2. In Lysistrata, a sure sign of courage is, according to the Men, what?

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

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

5. In Part 3 of The Acharnians, an informer denounces the Megarian girls as what?

(see the answer key)

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