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

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

3. What do the envoys promise Blepyros when they escort him to his home?
(a) A new horse.
(b) A hearty dinner.
(c) A new chariot.
(d) Intercourse.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Pisthetaerus going to take control of at the end of The Birds?

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

4. How is the disagreement between Euripides and his opponent settled?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How are the women's meeting organized in Thesmophoriazusae?

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

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

5. What crime does Mnesilochus admit committing as a woman?

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

7. What idea does Pisthetaerus come up with while talking with Hoopoe?

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

9. What plan does Lysistrata hope to put in place with the support of the other women?

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

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