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Lysistrata

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Character Analysis

Beginning–Inspection of Spartan Women

Lysistrata's Appeal–Gates of the Akropolis

Gates of the Akropolis–Wool Metaphor

Wool Metaphor–Myrrhine's Seduction

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Lysistrata

Aristophanes

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Who is Lysistrata's next-door neighbor?

(A) Lampito

(B) Myrrhine

(C) Peace

(D) Kleonike

Why does Lysistrata say that she is ashamed to be a woman?

(A) Women don't exercise

(B) Women shop too much

(C) Women don't stand up to male slander

(D) Women don't want peace

How do the men characterize the women?

(A) Sexy

(B) Smart and Intelligent

(C) Deceitful

(D) Passive

What reason does Kleonike give Lysistrata for the women being late?

(A) The women are tending their children

(B) The women are fighting Sparta

(C) The women are sleeping at home

(D) The women are at the gym

From what region is Myrrhine?

(A) Sparta

(B) Athens

(C) The Island of Lemnos

(D) The outskirts of Athens

Where is Lampito from?

(A) Athens

(B) The Island of Lemnos

(C) The Amazon

(D) Sparta

What does Lysistrata admire about the Korinthian Girl?

(A) Her monstrous buttocks

(B) Her full breasts

(C) Her strength and agility

(D) Her wit and humor

Why is Kleonike upset that the Milesians cut off the leather trade?

(A) She cannot get a saddle

(B) She needs a new belt

(C) She needs a leather hat

(D) She needs a masturbation kit

How does Lysistrata propose the women will make the men declare peace?

(A) Abstinence for a week

(B) No cooking until peace is declared

(C) Abstinence until peace is declared

(D) No caring for children until peace is declared

Why might the old women have been sent to seize the Akropolis?

(A) The old women are great warriors

(B) The old women are better with money

(C) The old women have seized the Akropolis before

(D) The old women aren't as important to a sex-strike

What do the women sacrifice?

(A) A White horse

(B) A sheep

(C) A bottle of wine

(D) An ogre

How does the Chorus of Men plan to get the women out of the Akropolis?

(A) Burn the Akropolis down

(B) Chase them out

(C) Cut of water to the Akropolis

(D) Smoke them out

How does the Chorus of Women defeat the Chorus of Men in the first round of conflict between the choruses?

(A) The women dump chamber pots on the men

(B) The women beat the men with sticks

(C) The women beat the men with lamps

(D) The women douse the men with water

How does the Commissioner define the gift of women?

(A) Moral Order

(B) Sexual Promiscuity

(C) Peace and Harmony

(D) Moral Chaos

What does Lysistrata intend to do with the money from the treasury?

(A) Give it to the war effort

(B) Spend it on women's programs

(C) Budget the money for the city

(D) Give it to the Spartans

Why does Lysistrata remove her veil?

(A) To go against Athenian religious tradition

(B) To put it on the Commissioner

(C) To go to battle

(D) To be more fashionable

What does Lysistrata tell the Commissioner the women will first do to make peace in Athens?

(A) Call up the Spartans

(B) Do a strip tease show for men of Athens in the Theatre of Dionysus

(C) Take all the money and spend it on social programs for teens in trouble

(D) Withdraw the Army of Occupation from the downtown

What does Lysistrata compare with spinning wool?

(A) The battle against Sparta

(B) The master plan for Athens

(C) The master plan for Sparta

(D) The master plan for sheep

Who is Myrrhine's husband?

(A) The Commissioner

(B) Kinesias

(C) Aiakos

(D) Xanthias

What does the Chorus of Men repeatedly call for?

(A) Misogyny

(B) Women's Rights

(C) Peace

(D) Law

What is the meaning of the oracle?

(A) The women will loose the battle

(B) The women will be humiliated if they don't work together for Peace

(C) The women will find great success

(D) There will be peace in Athens

In what condition do the Spartans arrive?

(A) Ready for War

(B) Sexually Frustrated

(C) Desperate for peace

(D) Both answers B & C

Why does Lysistrata tell the delegations they should make Peace?

(A) They have helped each other before

(B) The people have suffered too greatly

(C) The women need to get back to their husbands

(D) Peace is getting cold

What do the combined Choruses tell the audience?

(A) They can have loans from the treasury

(B) They are welcome to leave the show

(C) They are invited to feast with the women

(D) Both answers A & C

What reason do the women give for leaving the Akropolis?

(A) Pregnancy

(B) Need to weave

(C) Unpeeled Flax

(D) All above

How does Myrrhine torment her husband?

(A) Myrrhine does a courtship dance

(B) Myrrhine refuses to come out of the Akropolis

(C) Myrrhine undresses

(D) Myrrhine makes it seem like she will have sex with him, but doesn't

Why does Lysistrata bring out her naked handmaid, Peace?

(A) Peace looks just like a map of Ancient Greece

(B) Peace wants to tell the men a thing or two

(C) Peace wants peace

(D) Peace makes the men more urgent to make an agreement

What part of Greece do Peace's legs represent?

(A) Easy Mountain

(B) Maniac Gulf

(C) Promontory of Pylos

(D) Megara

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