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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What way does Dionysus choose to use to enter Hades?
(a) He waits for his master.
(b) Go the long way across the river.
(c) He swims across.
(d) He goes back home.

2. What god is caught wandering on earth at the end of The Birds?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Iris.
(c) Poseidon.
(d) Athena.

3. Why isn't Xanthias allowed to go across the river with Dionysus?
(a) He can fly.
(b) He wants to swim.
(c) He is a slave.
(d) He is too heavy.

4. How is a man supposed to earn the right to sleep with a pretty girl according to Praxagora?
(a) By sleeping with an ugly older woman.
(b) By doing chores.
(c) By cooking.
(d) By sleeping only with beautiful women.

5. How is the disagreement between Euripides and his opponent settled?
(a) Dionysus asks each of them to dance.
(b) Dionysus asks each of them to create a new poem.
(c) Dionysus asks each of them to give advice on how to help Athens.
(d) Dionysus asks each of them to try seducing a woman.

6. What river does Dionysus go across?
(a) Aliakmonas.
(b) Acheloos.
(c) Rubicon.
(d) The Styx.

7. How is Cinesias treated when he arrives at the building occupied by the women?
(a) He is sent away.
(b) His wife pretends to want intercourse and then abandons him.
(c) He is imprisoned.
(d) His wife gives into intercourse.

8. In Thesmophoriazusae, how did the women try to uncover the spy during the court proceedings?
(a) They ask each other who they know in the crowd.
(b) They sing.
(c) They undress.
(d) They call for a man to decide who is ugly enough to be a man.

9. What are Eulipides and Pisthetaerus doing at the start of The Birds?
(a) Going to an oracle.
(b) Traveling to Athens.
(c) Wandering in the woods.
(d) Going to the market.

10. At the beginning of the Birds, who are Eulipides and Pisthetaerus looking for?
(a) Heracles.
(b) Athena.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Hoopoe.

11. What does the visitor from Sparta want?
(a) To offer trading women.
(b) To purchase cheese.
(c) To talk peace with Athens.
(d) To declare war.

12. What are Eulipides and Pisthetaerus transforming into in the woods?
(a) Monkeys.
(b) Birds.
(c) Rats.
(d) Squirrels.

13. Who is Pisthetaerus going to take control of at the end of The Birds?
(a) Zeus' father, Cronus.
(b) Zeus' brother, Hades
(c) Zeus' mistress, Sovereignty.
(d) Zeus' wife, Hera.

14. What question do Eulipides and Pisthetaerus want to ask at the beginning of The Birds?
(a) The answer to the Sphinx riddle.
(b) Where they can find a quiet place to live.
(c) What the meaning of life is.
(d) Where Hoopoe lives.

15. In The Assemblywomen, what is Blepyros' relationship with Praxagora?
(a) Praxagora's brother.
(b) Praxagora's son.
(c) Praxagora's father.
(d) Praxagora's husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do the men see women, according to Lysistrata?

2. Who is Xanthias at the beginning of The Frogs?

3. What does Hoopoe's servant claim to be when Euelpides and Pisthetaerus first meet him?

4. In Thesmophoriazusae, who conducts Mnesilochus' interrogation during the proceedings?

5. What is Praxagora lamenting at the start of The Assemblywomen?

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