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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 question do Eulipides and Pisthetaerus want to ask at the beginning of The Birds?
(a) The answer to the Sphinx riddle.
(b) Where Hoopoe lives.
(c) Where they can find a quiet place to live.
(d) What the meaning of life is.

2. Who is Xanthias at the beginning of The Frogs?
(a) A playwright.
(b) A God.
(c) A nymph.
(d) Dionysus' slave.

3. In Thesmophoriazusae, who conducts Mnesilochus' interrogation during the proceedings?
(a) Cleisthenes.
(b) Micca.
(c) Agathon.
(d) The vendor.

4. Who is Pisthetaerus going to take control of at the end of The Birds?
(a) Zeus' mistress, Sovereignty.
(b) Zeus' brother, Hades
(c) Zeus' wife, Hera.
(d) Zeus' father, Cronus.

5. Who are fighting over the young man at the end of The Assemblywomen?
(a) Ugly women.
(b) Old women.
(c) Beautiful women.
(d) Men.

Short Answer Questions

1. In The Assemblywomen, what type of government is Praxagora planning?

2. What are Eulipides and Pisthetaerus transforming into in the woods?

3. In Thesmophoriazusae, what did Mnesilochus' cousin ask Agathon?

4. Who is Dionysus at the beginning of The Frogs?

5. What is the visitor from Sparta hiding under his tunic?

Short Essay Questions

1. What idea does Pisthetaerus come up with while talking with Hoopoe?

2. What crime does Mnesilochus admit committing as a woman?

3. How do the men react to the Lysistrata's taking over the treasury building?

4. Who becomes king of the birds at the end of The Birds?

5. How is the life of a young man as a result of the new regime in The Assemblywomen?

6. How is Praxagora's husband reacting to the new rules instating by Praxagora?

7. What society do women in The Assemblywomen plan on instating after voting to put themselves in charge of Athens?

8. Who arrived in Athens at the end of Lysistrata and why?

9. What are Aeschylus and Euripides representing in The Frogs?

10. What is the old women's role in Lysistrata's plan?

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