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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lysistrata, Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What day does Strepsiades tell Pheidippides he owes the creditors money?
(a) Dark and Light Day.
(b) Old and New Day.
(c) Night and Day Day.
(d) Past and Present Day.

2. What is the least effective way Strepsiades comes up with evading his debt and the reason Socrates gives up?
(a) Strepsiades suggests he hang himself because if he is dead he cannot pay his debts.
(b) Strepsiades realizes if he's in another country they cannot find him.
(c) Strepsiades decides he will change his name.
(d) Strepsiades decides to steal the money.

3. Aristophanes describes all the students in The Clouds as what?
(a) Fat.
(b) Thin.
(c) Tan.
(d) Active.

4. In Lysistrata, after the women douse the men with water, who enters?
(a) Stratyllis.
(b) The Magistrate.
(c) The First Old Woman.
(d) Lysistrata.

5. How does Dikaiopolis overpower Nicarchus?
(a) He slaps Nicharus.
(b) He trips Nicharus.
(c) He pokes Nicharus' eyes.
(d) He beats Nicharus with one of his straps.

Short Answer Questions

1. Socrates and Strepsiades brainstorm ways that Strepsiades can what?

2. As The Chorus of Old Men slowly get their fires going, who runs to the scene?

3. At the end of The Acharnians, The Chorus of Acharnians decides to follow who offstage, thereby symbolically giving support to which way of life?

4. Which peace does Dikaiopolis choose?

5. Lamachus is faced with a surprise skirmish and needs peace, but Dikaiopolis has other plans. What are they?

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