The Acharnians [and] the Clouds [and] Lysistrata Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 122 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Acharnians [and] the Clouds [and] Lysistrata Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 122 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who eats Dikaiopolis's lunch?

2. How does The Chorus of Acharnians feel about Dikaiopolis after all of his trading?

3. In Part 2 of The Acharnians, who is the Chorus composed of?

4. How does Dikaiopolis make peace?

5. Socrates checks on a not-sleeping Strepsiades by doing what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Dikaiopolis in the beginning of The Acharnians.

2. What kind of teacher is Socrates in The Clouds?

3. Describe "The Great King's Eye."

4. Dikaiopolis and Lamachus meet again just after Dikaiopolis shared a few drops of peace with the bride. What is notable about how their situations have changed since the beginning of the play?

5. Describe in detail what has caused Strepsiades to accumulate so much debt.

6. What does the sacrifice Dikaiopolis makes with the peace look like?

7. What is Pheidippides immediate opinion of Socrates's school?

8. What do all the bugs in The Thinkery suggest?

9. Describe what and how the students study at Socrates's school.

10. What is Dikaiopolis'S strategy in choosing the Peace?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Pick a Chorus that fascinates you and talk about their arc throughout the play they are featured in.

Essay Topic 2

The gods and goddesses are peppered through Aristophanes's work. Collect and describe the gods place in Athenian everyday life. Talk about the relationship between the gods and the people.

Essay Topic 3

In the world Aristophanes weaves for us in The Acharnians, politics and satire are so wrapped up in each other they are almost impossible to separate. Why do these two concepts go so well together? What makes this work, and if you separated them, what would happen to the play? What about how politics are practiced in Lysistrata?

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