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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Strepsiades eventually get rid of the Second Creditor?

3. What does Cinesias tell Lysistrata he wants?

4. In Lysistrata, what are the women going to do with the money in the temple?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Cinesias.

2. Compare and contrast Calonice and Myrrhine.

3. What do The Chorus of Old Men's pots symbolize?

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

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

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

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

8. How does The Clouds end?

9. How does Lysistrata rally the women?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The sacrifice of peace to Dionysus was a ritual performed in The Acharnians. though there are several more that occur in the three plays. Pick one other ritual and describe it in detail. Relate it to the sacrifice to Dionysis. How is it similar? Different? What makes it a ritual?

Essay Topic 2

Talk about the use of the fourth wall in Aristophanes's work. What is it and why is it important? Give specific examples from the three plays.

Essay Topic 3

Some of the situations and ideas expressed by Aristophanes throughout his work may come across today as offensive. Keeping in mind the range of things people find comedic today, talk about what those situations were and why they were historically considered fodder for comedy. In short, what did Ancient Greece find funny, and how have we changed?

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