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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pheidippides predict Strepsiades will do after Pheidippides finishes his training at Socrates' School?
(a) Strepsiades will soon be out of debt.
(b) Strepsiades will soon create his own school.
(c) Strepsiades will soon create more debt.
(d) Strepsiades will soon die.

2. In Lysistrata, what are some of the women trying to do while guarding the building they took over?
(a) Kill their husband.
(b) Go to Sparta.
(c) Sneak out to have food.
(d) Sneak out to have sex.

3. What are the women preparing for at the beginning of Thesmophoriazusae?
(a) To put Agathon on trial for dressing like a woman.
(b) To put Mnesilochus' cousin on trial for depicting women badly in his plays.
(c) To debate on women issues.
(d) To put Mnesilochus on trial for infidelity.

4. Who ferries Dionysus across the river in Hades?
(a) Charon.
(b) Hades.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Xanthias.

5. In Thesmophoriazusae, what do the women try to do to Mnesilochus to confirm that he is a man?
(a) Undress him.
(b) Imprison him.
(c) Kill him.
(d) Expel him from the assembly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dicaeopolis do after the closing of the assembly?

2. What does Lysistrata want in the play, Lysistrata?

3. How is the disagreement between Euripides and his opponent settled?

4. What is the visitor from Sparta hiding under his tunic?

5. What river does Dionysus go across?

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