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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Lysistrata, what are the men going to do with the first woman to exit the temple?
(a) Tie her up.
(b) Banish her.
(c) Burn her at the stake.
(d) Offer her as sacrifice for occupying the temple.

2. How does Socrates feel about teaching Pheidippides?
(a) Socrates thinks Pheidippides will be difficult to teach.
(b) Socrates refuses to take Pheidippides as a student in the school.
(c) Socrates thinks Pheidippides will be easy to teach.
(d) Socrates thinks Pheidippides will be exciting to teach.

3. In The Clouds, what does the Second Creditor look like?
(a) An older, but healthy man.
(b) A younger, bruised man.
(c) Same age, fatter than the first.
(d) A younger, strapping lad.

4. 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) Ambrosia, nectar, and apples.
(d) Olive wood logs, torches, and live coals.

5. Lysistrata comes out from the Acropolis and meets Stratyllis, how does she act?
(a) She is aggitated and paces.
(b) She is thoughtful and smirking.
(c) She sings and dances.
(d) She is happy and victorious.

6. What object does Lysistrata use as a metaphor to show how they will solve Greece's problems?
(a) A tangled skein of wool.
(b) A skin of wine, not yet aged.
(c) A day-old loaf of bread.
(d) A field of flowers in spring.

7. In the debate, Right advocates what activity over chattering at the market?
(a) Reading.
(b) Writing.
(c) Exercising.
(d) Thinking.

8. In The Clouds, who is "the bravest man that has performed the greatest number of labors"?
(a) Cleon.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Heracles.
(d) Poseidon.

9. As the Choruses exchange words in Lysistrata upon their first meeting, Stratyllis offers to give the Men's Leader a what?
(a) Bath.
(b) Roast.
(c) Feast.
(d) Foot Massage.

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

11. In Lysistrata, a sure sign of courage is, according to the Men, what?
(a) A defined forearm.
(b) Skills in knot-tying.
(c) A hairy bottom.
(d) Table-manners.

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

13. Lysistrata sees a man in the distance by the shrine of Chloe. What is vexing him?
(a) He is following a spool of thread that winds and unwinds.
(b) He is pulling a cart by himself.
(c) He is driven mad by Aphrodite's powers.
(d) He is pushing a giant rock uphill.

14. When the Choruses of Old Men and Old Women confront each other after the temporary defeat, the Old Men tell a tale of a man named what?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Heracles.
(c) Melanion.
(d) Perecles.

15. The Men's leader must give up onions in order to do what?
(a) Fit in his robes.
(b) Enter the temple.
(c) Win the war.
(d) Kiss Stratyllis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Lysistrata expect to be at her meeting first?

2. Wrong tells Pheidippides not to listen to Right because he will grow up and be what?

3. In The Clouds, what is the First Creditor collecting for?

4. What pair enter from the school as Strepsiades instructs Socrates what to teach Pheidippides?

5. What does The Chorus of The Clouds predict about Strepsiades after this encounter with the Second Creditor?

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