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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first question Lysistrata poses the assembled women?
(a) Do you like to wear sheer robes?
(b) Are you tired of war?
(c) Do you like to care of the home by yourself?
(d) Do you miss your husband?

2. In Lysistrata, after the Acropolis is opened, is it apparent that there are more men or women in the stand-off?
(a) Women, but the men are more powerful.
(b) Men, but the women are smarter.
(c) Women.
(d) Men.

3. How does Socrates feel about teaching Pheidippides?
(a) Socrates thinks Pheidippides will be difficult to teach.
(b) Socrates thinks Pheidippides will be exciting to teach.
(c) Socrates refuses to take Pheidippides as a student in the school.
(d) Socrates thinks Pheidippides will be easy to teach.

4. Wrong tells Pheidippides not to listen to Right because he will grow up and be what?
(a) Liked by too many people.
(b) Smarter than everyone.
(c) Unable to communicate.
(d) A boring little baby.

5. The Chorus of Old Men primarily condemn what, as they struggle to the Acropolis?
(a) Spartian music.
(b) Reckless Athenian Women.
(c) The Gods.
(d) Powerful Athenian Warriors.

6. Who throws off a cloak at the end of the debate between Right and Wrong, running out into the audience wearing female clothing?
(a) Right.
(b) Pheidippides.
(c) Wrong.
(d) Socrates.

7. When the Choruses of Old Men and Old Women confront each other after the temporary defeat, the Old Men tell a tale of a man named what?
(a) Perecles.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Melanion.
(d) Heracles.

8. Who is the leader of The Chorus of Old Women in Lysistrata?
(a) Stratyllis.
(b) Calonice.
(c) Lampito.
(d) Myrrhine.

9. What does Right talk about in his big speech, debating with Wrong?
(a) Children should be allowed to speak their mind.
(b) Young boys should eat expensive fish.
(c) The good old days when people were decent.
(d) There's no need to discipline children.

10. In Part 1, Calonice tells Lysistrata that Athenians can always be relied on to be what?
(a) Early.
(b) Athletic.
(c) Fast.
(d) Late.

11. How is Wrong dressed in Part 3 of The Clouds?
(a) An adolescent with a rooster.
(b) An old man in dated but luxurious clothing.
(c) A robust solder from Sparta.
(d) An unhealthy young man who smirks.

12. As quoted in Lysistrata, complete Euripides' statement. "There is no beast so shameless as a ____"?
(a) Woman.
(b) Man.
(c) Pig.
(d) Child.

13. The women assembled are all ready to do anything to end the war except what?
(a) Sell everything they own.
(b) Renounce sex.
(c) Cut themselves in two.
(d) Walk through fire.

14. After the Magistrate runs off to "show his colleagues" what the women did to him, who comes out on stage?
(a) The Choruses.
(b) Calonice.
(c) Lysistrata.
(d) Myrrhine.

15. In Part 4 of Lysistrata, all of the women's excuses for wanting to leave the Acropolis are what?
(a) In the best interest of Lysistrata.
(b) Completely valid.
(c) In the best interest of Greece.
(d) Double-entendres.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Men's leader must give up onions in order to do what?

2. After The Chorus of Old Men get to the Acropolis, they blow on their coals. What happens?

3. What is notable about the Spartan garments?

4. As they fighting goes on between the Choruses, who "accepts defeat for the time being"?

5. According to Calonice's first conversation with Lysistrata, which of the following are not part of what a woman can do?

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