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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Knights.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the reaction of the one that is supposed to replace Cleon?
(a) Skeptical.
(b) Frightened.
(c) He refuses the honor.
(d) Overjoyed.

2. Who are Cleon and his rival trying to convince of their worth?
(a) Demos.
(b) The chorus.
(c) Athens' government.
(d) Zeus.

3. What is Cleon's rival, the sausage merchant's real name?
(a) Agoracritus.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Dionysus.
(d) Acokotus.

4. At the beginning of Acharnians, what does Dicaeopolis want to talk about after the assembly?
(a) The horrors of marriage.
(b) The horrors of taxation.
(c) The horrors of Spartan food.
(d) The horrors of the ongoing war against Sparta.

5. Who does Amphitheus take hostage?
(a) A child.
(b) A man.
(c) A woman.
(d) A bag of coal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the orators preceding Dicaeopolis speak of?

2. When Cleon and the sausage merchant are off stage, who is praised in the second part of the speech by the chorus?

3. Who is going to war while Dicaeopolis is at the contest?

4. How is Cleon outbid for support at the Boule?

5. What does Dicaeopolis agree to?

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