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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do Eulipides and Pisthetaerus claim to be after their encounter with the servant?
(a) Rats.
(b) Monkeys.
(c) Squirrels.
(d) Birds.

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

4. In Thesmophoriazusae, what did Mnesilochus' cousin agree to do in order to rescue his cousin?
(a) To not write anything bad about women again.
(b) To write a tragedy.
(c) To do Chores.
(d) To commit suicide.

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

6. In Thesmophoriazusae, what does Mnesilochus do to defend himself after being uncovered as a man?
(a) He tries to talk his way out.
(b) He hides.
(c) He takes a hostage, but the baby turns out to be a bottle of wine.
(d) He runs.

7. In Lysistrata, who does the constable think is primarily responsible for the women's attitude?
(a) The Spartans.
(b) The women.
(c) The men not capable of controlling their woman-folk.
(d) The government.

8. How did Praxagora's women dress the morning of the coup?
(a) Naked.
(b) Normal women's clothes.
(c) Like children.
(d) In their husband's clothes, wearing fake beards.

9. In Thesmophoriazusae, who is Mnesilochus' cousin?
(a) Euripides.
(b) Cleisthenes.
(c) Micca.
(d) Agathon.

10. Who takes the place of "Best Tragic poet" at Hades' table at the end of The Frogs?
(a) Sophocles.
(b) Euripides.
(c) Plato.
(d) Socrates.

11. In Thesmophoriazusae, what punishment do the women want to apply to Mnesilochus' cousin?
(a) Castration.
(b) A fine.
(c) Death.
(d) Chores.

12. Who is Dionysus at the beginning of The Frogs?
(a) A miner.
(b) A God.
(c) A backer.
(d) A slave.

13. In Thesmophoriazusae, who speaks in Euripides' defense at the women's court?
(a) Mnesilochus dressed as a woman.
(b) Cleisthenes.
(c) Agathon.
(d) Zeus.

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

15. When Dionysus arrives in Hades, who is Euripides in conflict with?
(a) Plato.
(b) Sophocles.
(c) Aeschylus.
(d) Socrates.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who attends the meeting organized by Lysistrata?

2. Who tries to burn down the gates after the women take over the building?

3. How is Cinesias treated when he arrives at the building occupied by the women?

4. In The Assemblywomen, what is Blepyros' relationship with Praxagora?

5. What convinced Sparta to make the proposal?

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