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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Bride's Slave makes a final plea for some peace from Dikaiopolis. What is her reason?
(a) The Bride needs the Groom to fix the roof.
(b) The Bride is tired of polishing the groom's shield.
(c) The Bride cannot harvest the farm without the Groom.
(d) The Bride wants to enjoy the honeymoon with the Groom.

2. What does The Chorus of Acharnians cry when the first pitcher is finished?
(a) Hail to the champion.
(b) Hurry all you others.
(c) Stone the winner.
(d) Fear strike the last to finish.

3. Who poses as the eunuchs?
(a) Wrong and Right.
(b) Two dancing girls.
(c) Cleisthenes and Strato.
(d) Nobody, they are really eunuchs.

4. How does Dikaiopolis designate the free trade area?
(a) A grassy patch off to the side.
(b) Stones laid on the ground,
(c) A line drawn in the sand.
(d) Sticks laid on the ground.

5. This isn't the first time Dikaiopolis got in trouble with the government. What was his past offense?
(a) Cleon accused him of plagirism.
(b) Cleon accused him of treason.
(c) Cleon accused him of slandering Athens in front of foreigners.
(d) Cleon accused him of swindeling people in the market.

Short Answer Questions

1. Aristophanes describes all the students in The Clouds as what?

2. In Part 3 of The Acharnians, an informer denounces the Megarian girls as what?

3. What does Dikaiopolis give the Megarian for the girls?

4. What is not a part of the costume Dikaiopolis assembles?

5. What word best describes the way Socrates speaks to Strepsiades?

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