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

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

3. 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.

4. What object does Lysistrata use as a metaphor to show how they will solve Greece's problems?
(a) A day-old loaf of bread.
(b) A field of flowers in spring.
(c) A tangled skein of wool.
(d) A skin of wine, not yet aged.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What pair enter from the school as Strepsiades instructs Socrates what to teach Pheidippides?

3. The women assembled are all ready to do anything to end the war except what?

4. Strepsiades tells the First Creditor he would make a very good what?

5. The Men's leader must give up onions in order to do what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the second meeting of the Choruses in Lysistrata.

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

3. Describe Cinesias.

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

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

6. How does The Clouds end?

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. Describe Lysistrata.

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

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

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