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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Lysistrata, after the Acropolis is opened, is it apparent that there are more men or women in the stand-off?
(a) Men, but the women are smarter.
(b) Women, but the men are more powerful.
(c) Men.
(d) Women.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Lysistrata, after the women swear the oath and go to the Acropolis, who enters the stage?

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

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

4. The Athenian women of Lysistrata are impressed with Lampito's what?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the pitchers carried by The Chorus of Old Women represent?

2. Who is Lampito? Describe how she is treated by the Athenian women.

3. Describe the oath the four women take in Lysistrata.

4. Describe how Strepsiades finally gets Pheidippides to attend The Thinkery.

5. Describe the first confrontation between the Choruses of Men and Women in Lysistrata.

6. In the past, how did the women of Lysistrata feel about the political blunders of their husbands? How did they deal with it?

7. Describe Cinesias.

8. How does Lysistrata rally the women?

9. Describe the Magistrate in Part 3 of Lysistrata.

10. Describe Lysistrata.

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