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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. What is notable about the Spartan garments?

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

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

4. In The Clouds, who is "the bravest man that has performed the greatest number of labors"?

5. The man spotted by Lysistrata in Part 4 is actually a husband, belonging to one of the women present. Whose husband is he?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does The Clouds end?

6. How has The Chorus of The Clouds changed throughout the play?

7. Compare and contrast Calonice and Myrrhine.

8. What does dressing the Magistrate as a woman symbolize?

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

10. Describe the Magistrate in Part 3 of Lysistrata.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

These three plays speak to a broad spectrum of culture, life, ritual, and relationships in Ancient Greece. Pick three concepts that still exist today, and relate them to present time. Use materials from the book and trace how your three concepts have traveled through time and how they exist now. Some ideas include education, politics, and religion.

Essay Topic 2

In the world Aristophanes weaves for us in The Acharnians, politics and satire are so wrapped up in each other they are almost impossible to separate. Why do these two concepts go so well together? What makes this work, and if you separated them, what would happen to the play? What about how politics are practiced in Lysistrata?

Essay Topic 3

Several other symbols, other than wine, are used in the three plays by Aristophanes. Pick three to describe and compare.

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