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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Lysistrata, what do the women carry with them to meet the Chorus of Old Men?
(a) Jugs of wine.
(b) Bowls of flour.
(c) Cups of sugar.
(d) Pitchers of water.

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

3. What do The Chorus of Old Men carry onto the stage in their first appearance in Lysistrata?
(a) Thrushes, axes, and spears.
(b) Olive wood logs, torches, and live coals.
(c) Ambrosia, nectar, and apples.
(d) Wine, honey, and olives.

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

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

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

7. Before the women took the Acropolis, the Magistrate had trouble with women. What did the last woman do to upset the Magistrate?
(a) Shout for Zeus from the market.
(b) Cry for Adonis on the roof.
(c) Sing during a feast.
(d) Dance during a debate.

8. How does Strepsiades eventually get rid of the Second Creditor?
(a) Strepsiades pays his debt.
(b) The Second Creditor gives up.
(c) Strepsiades assults the Second Creditor.
(d) Strepsiades talks himself out of the debt.

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

10. What does Socrates tell Strepsiades about Pheidippides's progress?
(a) Pheidippides is ready to argue.
(b) Pheidippides needs more time.
(c) Pheidippides refused to learn anything.
(d) Pheidippides may go, but he won't win all of the arguments.

11. What is Lysistrata going to do to enforce her ban in Athens?
(a) Steal money from the temple to bribe the women.
(b) Hold the women hostage.
(c) Occupy The Acropolis.
(d) Go on a starvation strike.

12. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What has changed about Pheidippides's appearance since he entered The Thinkery?

2. After The Chorus of Old Men get to the Acropolis, they blow on their coals. What happens?

3. 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?

4. How is Wrong dressed in Part 3 of The Clouds?

5. In Lysistrata, a sure sign of courage is, according to the Men, what?

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