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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lysistrata, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In The Clouds, what does the Second Creditor look like?
(a) Same age, fatter than the first.
(b) A younger, strapping lad.
(c) An older, but healthy man.
(d) A younger, bruised man.

2. According to Dikaiopolis, who or what started the war?
(a) A difference in religion with the Megarians.
(b) Pericles sent out thunder and lightning.
(c) A few drunk Athenian men kidnapped a woman.
(d) The Spartians cutting down Athenian vines.

3. When Strepsiades returns home from the school, Strepsiades tells Pheidippdes someone doesn't exist. Who is that?
(a) Peace.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Cleon.
(d) Zeus.

4. Who provides the rules for Right and Wrong's argument?
(a) The Chorus Leader.
(b) Pheidippides.
(c) Strepsiades.
(d) Socrates.

5. Why does Pheidippides agree to go to learn rhetoric?
(a) He secretly loves philosophy.
(b) He is half-asleep.
(c) He wants to help Strepsiades.
(d) He is bored.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who can Socrates just not teach in The Clouds?

2. What's wrong with the Megarian's appearance?

3. What is Lamachus doing when he sees Dikaiopolis at the end of The Acharnians?

4. How much does the first Ambassador make in a day?

5. Why doesn't the Chorus want War at his parties?

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