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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Praxagora's plan at the beginning of The Assemblywomen?
(a) To violently take control of parliament.
(b) To blackmail politicians.
(c) To leave town with all the women.
(d) To come early to the Athenian parliament to take a majority of seats.

2. n Thesmophoriazusae, what is of interest concerning Agathon?
(a) His wife has spare clothes.
(b) He is writing a play about women's rights.
(c) He is playing the role of Euripides in a play.
(d) He is dressed as a woman for a part in his play.

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

4. What do the old women do while the meeting is being held?
(a) They take over the oracle.
(b) Take over the assembly.
(c) They take over the Acropolis.
(d) Take over the house of a general.

5. How did Mnesilochus' cousin try to free him at the end of Thesmophoriazusae?
(a) By paying the guards.
(b) By force.
(c) Using a horse.
(d) He dresses up.

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

7. Who is Calonice's relationship with Lysistrata?
(a) Lysistrata's daughter.
(b) Lysistrata's sister.
(c) Lysistrata's friend.
(d) Lysistrata's mother.

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

9. Where are Mnesilochus and his cousin going to at the beginning of Thesmophoriazusae?
(a) Athena's banquet.
(b) Zeus Festival.
(c) Demeter festival.
(d) Poseidon feast.

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

11. In The Assemblywomen, why is Chremes made fun of by another citizen?
(a) Cooking for his wife.
(b) Bowing to a woman.
(c) Contributing his belongings to the state.
(d) Dressing like a woman.

12. How do Eulipides and Pisthetaerus think the gods can be supplanted?
(a) By stealing Zeus' thunder.
(b) By stealing fire from men.
(c) By dressing like birds.
(d) By building a castle between earth and heaven.

13. In Thesmophoriazusae, who conducts Mnesilochus' interrogation during the proceedings?
(a) The vendor.
(b) Micca.
(c) Agathon.
(d) Cleisthenes.

14. What city do Eulipides and Pisthetaerus want to leave at the beginning of Birds?
(a) Tripoli.
(b) Sparta.
(c) Athens.
(d) Corinth.

15. In Thesmophoriazusae, what do the women do with Mnesilochus after uncovering his identity?
(a) They castrate him.
(b) They turn him over to Athenian's authorities.
(c) They bite him.
(d) The send him away.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who takes the place of "Best Tragic poet" at Hades' table at the end of The Frogs?

2. What are Eulipides and Pisthetaerus doing at the start of The Birds?

3. What convinced Sparta to make the proposal?

4. What question do Eulipides and Pisthetaerus want to ask at the beginning of The Birds?

5. What are Eulipides and Pisthetaerus transforming into in the woods?

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