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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Assemblywomen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Eulipides and Pisthetaerus name the city they help create?
(a) Birdopolis.
(b) Monkeylopolis.
(c) Squirrelopolis.
(d) Cuckoonebulopolis.

2. In Thesmophoriazusae, what questions did the interrogator ask Mnesilochus to try to determine if he is a woman?
(a) How to cook a specific meal.
(b) How he managed childbirth.
(c) How to take care of a baby.
(d) Who "her" husband is and what "she" did during last year's festival.

3. Who is Xanthias at the beginning of The Frogs?
(a) A God.
(b) Dionysus' slave.
(c) A nymph.
(d) A playwright.

4. Who greets Trygaeus upon his arrival at the gates of heaven?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Hermes.
(c) Heracles.
(d) Hera.

5. What is the relationship between Strepsiades and Pheidippides?
(a) Two friends.
(b) Two merchant.
(c) Father and son.
(d) Two generals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Trygaeus ask his servants and daughter not to do?

2. Who is Dionysus in route to at the beginning of The Frogs?

3. Why isn't Xanthias allowed to go across the river with Dionysus?

4. What prevented peace from being released sooner according to Trygaeus and Hermes?

5. In Thesmophoriazusae, who speaks in Euripides' defense at the women's court?

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