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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. As they fighting goes on between the Choruses, who "accepts defeat for the time being"?
(a) The Chorus of Old Women.
(b) Stratyllis.
(c) Lampito.
(d) The Chorus of Old Men.

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

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

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

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

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

8. How do Stratyllis and the Men's Leader and their followers get ready to fight?
(a) They grease up.
(b) They take their clothes off.
(c) They assemble weapons.
(d) They stretch and warm-up.

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

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

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

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

13. What does The Chorus of The Clouds predict about Strepsiades after this encounter with the Second Creditor?
(a) Strepsiades will be broken-hearted.
(b) Strepsiades will get out of all of his debt.
(c) Strepsiades will come into some money.
(d) Strepsiades will be very proud of his son.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Right dressed in Part 3 of The Clouds?

2. What is Lysistrata going to do to enforce her ban in Athens?

3. In The Clouds, what does the First Creditor look like?

4. Who provides the rules for Right and Wrong's argument?

5. In Lysistrata, what do the women carry with them to meet the Chorus of Old Men?

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