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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Pheidippides uses his education from The Thinkery to rationalize what?
(a) Spending more money on horses.
(b) Not performing his chores.
(c) Paying back his father's debt.
(d) Hitting his father.

2. 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.

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

4. 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) Aske them to leave, or burn all their gowns and robes at home.
(c) Ask them to leave, or smoke them out.
(d) Ask them to leave, or go on a sex strike.

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

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

7. What have the women done for the war effort, up to the play?
(a) Handled local government while the soldiers are gone.
(b) Given their sons and daughters.
(c) Supplied the armies with homemade meals.
(d) Repaired the torn uniforms of the soldiers.

8. Who provides the rules for Right and Wrong's argument?
(a) Pheidippides.
(b) Socrates.
(c) The Chorus Leader.
(d) Strepsiades.

9. In Lysistrata, after the women douse the men with water, who enters?
(a) The First Old Woman.
(b) Stratyllis.
(c) The Magistrate.
(d) Lysistrata.

10. After the Magistrate runs off to "show his colleagues" what the women did to him, who comes out on stage?
(a) Lysistrata.
(b) Myrrhine.
(c) Calonice.
(d) The Choruses.

11. After The Chorus of Old Men get to the Acropolis, they blow on their coals. What happens?
(a) Smoke blows in their faces, twice.
(b) The coals blow away.
(c) The coals fell out of their pots on the way.
(d) The coals went out.

12. As quoted in Lysistrata, complete Euripides' statement. "There is no beast so shameless as a ____"?
(a) Child.
(b) Man.
(c) Pig.
(d) Woman.

13. How does one woman pretend to be pregnant in order to go home in Part 4 of Lysistrata?
(a) She uses wool, full of moths.
(b) She uses a helmet.
(c) She is actually pregnant.
(d) She uses treasures from the temple.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Lysistrata, what are the men going to do with the first woman to exit the temple?

2. In The Clouds, what does the Second Creditor look like?

3. The Chorus of Old Men primarily praise what, as they struggle to the Acropolis?

4. What do the women do to the Magistrate, just before they make demands?

5. In Part 3 of Lysistrata, what moves the first woman to exit the temple and face the Magistrate to do so?

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