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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 do the women do to the Magistrate, just before they make demands?
(a) Give him wine.
(b) Make him sit down in a throne.
(c) Dress him like a woman.
(d) Cut his hair.

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

3. 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) Handled local government while the soldiers are gone.
(d) Supplied the armies with homemade meals.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Lysistrata, where is Ismenia from?

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

4. Why is Lysistrata angry in the beginning of the play?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the pitchers carried by The Chorus of Old Women represent?

2. How has The Chorus of The Clouds changed throughout the play?

3. Describe the first confrontation between the Choruses of Men and Women in Lysistrata.

4. Describe the oath the four women take in Lysistrata.

5. How are the women reacting to the sex strike? What does this say about the women?

6. Outline Wrong's argument in the formal debate.

7. Before they begin the formal debate, what are some of the things Right and Wrong bicker about?

8. Describe the Magistrate in Part 3 of Lysistrata.

9. Describe Cinesias.

10. After his education, what does Pheidippides consider acceptable in regard to his relationships with his parents?

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