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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Lysistrata going to do to enforce her ban in Athens?
(a) Steal money from the temple to bribe the women.
(b) Occupy The Acropolis.
(c) Go on a starvation strike.
(d) Hold the women hostage.

2. What have the women done for the war effort, up to the play?
(a) Given their sons and daughters.
(b) Repaired the torn uniforms of the soldiers.
(c) Supplied the armies with homemade meals.
(d) Handled local government while the soldiers are gone.

3. 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) Melanion.
(c) Heracles.
(d) Zeus.

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

5. 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 Greece.
(b) Completely valid.
(c) Double-entendres.
(d) In the best interest of Lysistrata.

6. Why is Myrrhine late for Lysistrata's meeting?
(a) She had trouble finding her waistband in the dark.
(b) She slept in.
(c) She had to make breakfast.
(d) She had to bathe and feed the baby.

7. Strepsiades goes back to The Thinkery to check and see if Pheidippides is ready. Who answers the door?
(a) Socrates.
(b) The Student.
(c) The Chours of Clouds
(d) Pheidippides.

8. What is notable about the Spartan garments?
(a) They are all red.
(b) They are all blue.
(c) They button up the back.
(d) They are all split on the side.

9. In the debate, Right advocates what activity over chattering at the market?
(a) Reading.
(b) Thinking.
(c) Exercising.
(d) Writing.

10. In Lysistrata, a sure sign of courage is, according to the Men, what?
(a) Table-manners.
(b) Skills in knot-tying.
(c) A hairy bottom.
(d) A defined forearm.

11. How does one woman pretend to be pregnant in order to go home in Part 4 of Lysistrata?
(a) She uses wool, full of moths.
(b) She uses treasures from the temple.
(c) She uses a helmet.
(d) She is actually pregnant.

12. What does Lysistrata suggest the Magistrate and all the men do?
(a) Listen to the women but put in their opinions, too.
(b) Listen to the women, but do what they think is best.
(c) Listen to the women and keep quiet, as they used to do.
(d) Stay in charge. Keep the status quo.

13. In Part 3 of Lysistrata, what moves the first woman to exit the temple and face the Magistrate to do so?
(a) The men took a crowbar to the door.
(b) The men started to smoke out the women.
(c) The men told her the gods would strike her down.
(d) She went on her own free will.

14. According to Calonice's first conversation with Lysistrata, which of the following are not part of what a woman can do?
(a) Sit at home.
(b) Speak for herself.
(c) Look pretty.
(d) Wear giant slippers.

15. Before the women took the Acropolis, the Magistrate had trouble with women. What did the last woman do to upset the Magistrate?
(a) Dance during a debate.
(b) Sing during a feast.
(c) Shout for Zeus from the market.
(d) Cry for Adonis on the roof.

Short Answer Questions

1. What pair enter from the school as Strepsiades instructs Socrates what to teach Pheidippides?

2. Now that Strepsiades tells Pheidippdes all of the fascinating things learned in the school, how does Pheidippdes feel about learning?

3. How is Wrong dressed in Part 3 of The Clouds?

4. In Lysistrata, after the Acropolis is opened, is it apparent that there are more men or women in the stand-off?

5. Who did Lysistrata expect to be at her meeting first?

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