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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) Hitting his father.
(b) Not performing his chores.
(c) Paying back his father's debt.
(d) Spending more money on horses.

2. What is notable about the Spartan garments?
(a) They are all blue.
(b) They are all split on the side.
(c) They are all red.
(d) They button up the back.

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

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

5. What does Right talk about in his big speech, debating with Wrong?
(a) Young boys should eat expensive fish.
(b) There's no need to discipline children.
(c) The good old days when people were decent.
(d) Children should be allowed to speak their mind.

6. What pair enter from the school as Strepsiades instructs Socrates what to teach Pheidippides?
(a) Right and Wrong.
(b) Love and Hate.
(c) Light and Dark.
(d) War and Peace.

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

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

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

11. In Part 4 of Lysistrata, all of the women's excuses for wanting to leave the Acropolis are what?
(a) In the best interest of Lysistrata.
(b) Double-entendres.
(c) Completely valid.
(d) In the best interest of Greece.

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

13. The women assembled are all ready to do anything to end the war except what?
(a) Renounce sex.
(b) Walk through fire.
(c) Sell everything they own.
(d) Cut themselves in two.

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

15. Why is Myrrhine late for Lysistrata's meeting?
(a) She had to make breakfast.
(b) She had to bathe and feed the baby.
(c) She slept in.
(d) She had trouble finding her waistband in the dark.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What will The Chorus of Clouds do for the theatre judges for a favorable outcome?

3. Lysistrata sees a man in the distance by the shrine of Chloe. What is vexing him?

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

5. What does Cinesias tell Lysistrata he wants?

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