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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. How does Socrates feel about teaching Pheidippides?
(a) Socrates thinks Pheidippides will be exciting to teach.
(b) Socrates thinks Pheidippides will be easy to teach.
(c) Socrates thinks Pheidippides will be difficult to teach.
(d) Socrates refuses to take Pheidippides as a student in the school.

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

3. Why is Lysistrata angry in the beginning of the play?
(a) Her saffron robe is ripped.
(b) None of the women have arrived at the meeting.
(c) Her husband is too attentive.
(d) She can't get to sleep.

4. Now that Strepsiades tells Pheidippdes all of the fascinating things learned in the school, how does Pheidippdes feel about learning?
(a) Pheidippdes is anxious he isn't smart enough to learn.
(b) Pheidippdes rethinks his original feelings about the school.
(c) Pheidippdes gets excited about the school also.
(d) Pheidippdes still thinks the school is foolish.

5. How is Wrong dressed in Part 3 of The Clouds?
(a) An adolescent with a rooster.
(b) A robust solder from Sparta.
(c) An unhealthy young man who smirks.
(d) An old man in dated but luxurious clothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. In The Clouds, what does the Second Creditor look like?

2. What does Socrates tell Strepsiades about Pheidippides's progress?

3. In Lysistrata, where is Ismenia from?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Outline Right's argument in the formal debate.

2. Describe the Magistrate in Part 3 of Lysistrata.

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

4. Describe Cinesias.

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

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

7. The Chorus of Old Men also push logs up to the Acropolis. How do they handle the task and what does that symbolize?

8. Compare and contrast Calonice and Myrrhine.

9. How does The Clouds end?

10. How do the Choruses react to the scene between Cinesias and Myrrhine?

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