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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Wrong tells Pheidippides not to listen to Right because he will grow up and be what?
(a) Liked by too many people.
(b) Unable to communicate.
(c) A boring little baby.
(d) Smarter than everyone.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Cinesias tell Lysistrata he wants?
(a) To help the women.
(b) To see his wife.
(c) To go home. He loves it there now this his wife is gone.
(d) To flee Athens.

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

11. 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) Heracles.
(b) Perecles.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Melanion.

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

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

14. According to Calonice's first conversation with Lysistrata, which of the following are not part of what a woman can do?
(a) Wear giant slippers.
(b) Speak for herself.
(c) Sit at home.
(d) Look pretty.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lysistrata suggest the Magistrate and all the men do?

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

3. What day does Strepsiades tell Pheidippides he owes the creditors money?

4. In Lysistrata, after the Acropolis is opened, is it apparent that there are more men or women in the stand-off?

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

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