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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How many samples of peace does Dikaioplois have to choose from?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) One.
(d) Three.
2. What is Dikaiopolis doing when he sees Lamachus return from battle?
(a) Dancing with his daughters.
(b) Singing bawdy songs.
(c) Drinking with dancing girls.
(d) Playing music on the lute.
3. According to Socrates, why does a gnat make a humming noise?
(a) The speed of its wings produce a sound.
(b) Wind goes straight through its intestinal passage. It's a gnat fart.
(c) That's just the sound it makes.
(d) It's a mating call.
4. What word best describes the way Socrates speaks to Strepsiades?
(a) Clear.
(b) Articulate.
(c) Confusing.
(d) Astute.
5. Who is the first person to drink a whole pitcher on Pitcher Day?
(a) The Leader.
(b) Dikaiopolis.
(c) Theorus.
(d) Lamachus.
6. In The Clouds, who is the protagonist's son?
(a) Chaerephon.
(b) Pheidippides.
(c) Strepsiades.
(d) Socrates.
7. What does The Chorus of Acharnians cry when the first pitcher is finished?
(a) Stone the winner.
(b) Hail to the champion.
(c) Fear strike the last to finish.
(d) Hurry all you others.
8. How does Dikaiopolis like the first peace?
(a) He likes it, but tries another.
(b) He tastes it, but doesn't like it.
(c) He doesn't even try it.
(d) He loves it.
9. In the end of The Acharnians, Dikaiopolis claims he is keen to do what?
(a) Share his peace.
(b) Cook for everyone else.
(c) Go to bed.
(d) Continue selling in his market.
10. How does Dikaiopolis make peace?
(a) He pours some wine on the ground.
(b) He gives his life in service to the Spartians.
(c) He sends his son as an ambassador.
(d) He signs several treaties.
11. How does Dikaiopolis agree to speak his side to the Chorus of Acharnians?
(a) On a catapult, ready to launch.
(b) With his head over a block.
(c) Blindfolded.
(d) In a headlock.
12. What does Dikaiopolis take as tax from the Thebian?
(a) Eels.
(b) A doorman.
(c) A plant.
(d) Jam.
13. When the crier re-enters in Part 4 of The Acharnians to announce the trumpet signal to drink wine, what is Dikaiopolis doing?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Eating.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Cleaning.
14. What does Socrates try to teach Strepsiades?
(a) Physics, dance, and culture.
(b) Geometry, language, and gender.
(c) Algebra, logic, and religion.
(d) Chemistry, music, and politics.
15. In the beginning of The Acharnians, who arrives late to the assembly and speaks to the crowd first?
(a) Theorus.
(b) Amphitheus.
(c) The Ambassador.
(d) Diakaiopolis.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Dikaiopolis finally get the Chorus of Acharnians to listen to his side of the story?
2. What is wrong with Strepsiades's bed when he tries to go to sleep?
3. The Third Messenger announces what?
4. Does Dikaiopolis sell to the slave?
5. What barnyard animal do the Megarian's daughters pose as?
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