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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has changed about Pheidippides's appearance since he entered The Thinkery?
(a) He has grown slightly taller.
(b) He has become slightly fatter.
(c) He has become much more pale.
(d) He has become very tan.

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

3. In Part 3 of Lysistrata, what moves the first woman to exit the temple and face the Magistrate to do so?
(a) The men told her the gods would strike her down.
(b) The men took a crowbar to the door.
(c) The men started to smoke out the women.
(d) She went on her own free will.

4. In Part 3 of Lysistrata, which woman is the first to exit the temple and face the Magistrate?
(a) Myrrhne.
(b) Calcone.
(c) Lysistrata.
(d) Lampito.

5. The Athenian women of Lysistrata are impressed with Lampito's what?
(a) Hair.
(b) Physical form.
(c) Shoes.
(d) Clothes.

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

7. What is Lysistrata going to do to enforce her ban in Athens?
(a) Go on a starvation strike.
(b) Hold the women hostage.
(c) Occupy The Acropolis.
(d) Steal money from the temple to bribe the women.

8. Strepsiades tells the First Creditor he would make a very good what?
(a) Table.
(b) Wine skin.
(c) Model.
(d) Lawyer.

9. In Part 1, Calonice tells Lysistrata that Athenians can always be relied on to be what?
(a) Early.
(b) Late.
(c) Athletic.
(d) Fast.

10. The man spotted by Lysistrata in Part 4 is actually a husband, belonging to one of the women present. Whose husband is he?
(a) Lysistrata.
(b) Lampito.
(c) Calonice.
(d) Myrrhine.

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

12. As The Chorus of Old Men slowly get their fires going, who runs to the scene?
(a) Lysistrata.
(b) The Chorus of Young Women.
(c) The Chorus of Old Women.
(d) Lampito.

13. What will The Chorus of Clouds do for the theatre judges for a favorable outcome?
(a) Wine and beer.
(b) Pottery.
(c) Gold.
(d) Rain and crops.

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

15. What is the plan to get out the women occupying the Acropolis, according to the Men's Leader?
(a) Ask them to leave, or set their homes on fire.
(b) Ask them to leave, or go on a sex strike.
(c) Ask them to leave, or smoke them out.
(d) Aske them to leave, or burn all their gowns and robes at home.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does one woman pretend to be pregnant in order to go home in Part 4 of Lysistrata?

2. Now that Strepsiades tells Pheidippdes all of the fascinating things learned in the school, how does Pheidippdes feel about learning?

3. Why is Lysistrata angry in the beginning of the play?

4. How does Strepsiades eventually get rid of the Second Creditor?

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

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