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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. How do Eulipides and Pisthetaerus name the city they help create?

2. Who is Pisthetaerus going to take control of at the end of The Birds?

3. What question do Eulipides and Pisthetaerus want to ask at the beginning of The Birds?

4. Who is getting married at the end of The Birds?

5. What do Eulipides and Pisthetaerus eat in the woods to undergo a transformation?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Lysistrata find some of the women trying to do?

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

4. Who and what are the Eulipides and Pisthetaerus looking for in The Birds?

5. In The Birds, what happens to Eulipides and Pisthetaerus after they eat the root given by Hoopoe?

6. In the play The Frogs, where are Dionysus and Xanthias going and how are they greeted when they arrived?

7. How are the women's meeting organized in Thesmophoriazusae?

8. Why do the women want to take power in The Assemblywomen and how do they plan on overthrowing the men?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare Assemblywomen with one of the other plays featuring women, such as Lysistrata. Discuss the similarities and differences in theme, tone and other elements of each of the plays.

Essay Topic 2

As with many of Aristophanes' works, discuss the satire depicted in the culture of Athen's judicial system and Cleon. Discuss the accusations Aristophanes makes against Cleon in Wasps. Use examples from the book to support your statements.

Essay Topic 3

Given the historical or factual nature of many of Aristophanes' plays, who does Aristophanes blame for the ongoing war in the play Peace? What effects did the war have on Athens? Why did the war continue for as long as it did? Use a secondary source and the text to support your discussion.

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