Match List I with List II:

List I: Play by Aristophanes	List II: Target / subject
A. Acharnians	I. Government by women
B. Clouds	II. Those engaged in the war
C. Lysistrata	III. The new philosophical inquiry
D. Wasps	IV. Demagogues

1. AA-I, B-III, C-II, D-IV
2. BA-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
3. CA-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
4. DA-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV

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Correct answer: D. A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV

Explanation

Acharnians (425 BCE) satirises the Peloponnesian War party; Clouds (423) mocks Socrates and the Sophists; in Lysistrata (411) women seize the Acropolis; Wasps (422) attacks Cleon's manipulation of the jury-courts.

Note: 'Government by women' fits Ecclesiazusae (Assemblywomen) more exactly; the key pairs it with Lysistrata.