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

2. 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) Young boys should eat expensive fish.
(d) Children should be allowed to speak their mind.

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

4. In Lysistrata, where is Ismenia from?
(a) Megara.
(b) Athens.
(c) Boeotia.
(d) Sparta.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 4 of Lysistrata, all of the women's excuses for wanting to leave the Acropolis are what?

2. What is the first question Lysistrata poses the assembled women?

3. What does The Chorus of The Clouds predict about Strepsiades after this encounter with the Second Creditor?

4. The Women tell a story of Timon to the Men. According to the women, Timon hated men. What didn't Timon hate?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the women reacting to the sex strike? What does this say about the women?

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

3. Describe the Magistrate in Part 3 of Lysistrata.

4. How will The Chorus of The Clouds react if mistreated?

5. Outline Wrong's argument in the formal debate.

6. Describe Lysistrata.

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

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

9. Describe Cinesias.

10. After his education, what does Pheidippides consider acceptable in regard to his relationships with his parents?

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