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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are fighting over the young man at the end of The Assemblywomen?
(a) Ugly women.
(b) Men.
(c) Old women.
(d) Beautiful women.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Who is Dionysus in route to at the beginning of The Frogs?
(a) To see Zeus.
(b) The oracle.
(c) His half-brother, Heracles.
(d) To see Hades.

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

10. Who arrives in the city after the chorus of men commiserates with Cinesias?
(a) A Spartan governor.
(b) A Spartan woman.
(c) A Spartan herald.
(d) A Spartan merchant.

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

12. What does Lysistrata want in the play, Lysistrata?
(a) To end the War between Sparta and Athens.
(b) Access to the Olympic Games.
(c) More food.
(d) New clothes.

13. 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 try seducing a woman.
(c) Dionysus asks each of them to give advice on how to help Athens.
(d) Dionysus asks each of them to create a new poem.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. n Thesmophoriazusae, what is of interest concerning Agathon?

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

3. How do Eulipides and Pisthetaerus name the city they help create?

4. How does the play Lysistrata end?

5. How did Praxagora's women dress the morning of the coup?

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