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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. In Thesmophoriazusae, what did Mnesilochus' cousin ask Agathon?
(a) To give him his wife's clothes.
(b) To hide him.
(c) To spy on the women putting him on trial.
(d) To come with him to meet the women.

10. In The Assemblywomen, what type of government is Praxagora planning?
(a) A monarchy.
(b) A dictatorship with her in power.
(c) A democracy run by women.
(d) A communist regime where everything is shared, even love.

11. In The Assemblywomen, what do Blepyros and the other men find out in the morning?
(a) That the men need to wear dresses.
(b) Parliament turned over power to the women.
(c) Parliament turned over the power to Sparta.
(d) That the women left the city.

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

13. Who does Eulipides and Pisthetaerus come to meet in the woods look like?
(a) A man with a strange beak.
(b) A blind man.
(c) A woman.
(d) A man with a cape.

14. What are the fastest ways to go to Hades according to the text?
(a) Hanging, drinking poison or jumping off a tower.
(b) Ask Cerebus.
(c) Being tortured.
(d) Killing someone.

15. Who is Cinesias looking for when he comes to the building occupied by the women?
(a) His sister, Myrrhine.
(b) His mother, Myrrhine.
(c) His wife, Myrrhine.
(d) His daughter, Myrrhine.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Thesmophoriazusae, what questions did the interrogator ask Mnesilochus to try to determine if he is a woman?

2. How did the attendees react to the proposal made by Lysistrata?

3. How does the play Lysistrata end?

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

5. In Thesmophoriazusae, how did the women try to uncover the spy during the court proceedings?

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