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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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 call for a man to decide who is ugly enough to be a man.
(d) They undress.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In The Assemblywomen, what resolution does Praxagora plan to introduce for Greece?

3. What convinced Sparta to make the proposal?

4. Why isn't Xanthias allowed to go across the river with Dionysus?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Euripides concerned about at the start of Thesmophoriazusae?

2. What society do women in The Assemblywomen plan on instating after voting to put themselves in charge of Athens?

3. What is Pisthetaerus' plan for gaining control over earth and heaven?

4. Why is Lysistrata convening the meeting and what is discussed?

5. Who becomes king of the birds at the end of The Birds?

6. What does Lysistrata find some of the women trying to do?

7. Why is Dionysus changing clothes so often in the middle of The Frogs?

8. How do Pisthetaerus and the birds subdue the gods?

9. How is the life of a young man as a result of the new regime in The Assemblywomen?

10. What are Aeschylus and Euripides representing in The Frogs?

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