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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Pheidippides' vice as introduced in the beginning of The Clouds?
(a) Drug.
(b) Horse betting.
(c) Cards.
(d) Women.

2. How is Cleon's rival able to win?
(a) By being better at logic than Cleon.
(b) By being more shameless.
(c) By running faster.
(d) By being a better sausage merchant.

3. What is Strepsiades doing to convince Pheidippides to stop betting?
(a) He forbids him from betting.
(b) He is beating him up.
(c) He is having a heart to heart chat.
(d) He stops loaning him money.

4. What does Trygaeus ask his servants and daughter not to do?
(a) Not to follow him on another beetle.
(b) Not to go to Sparta.
(c) Not to pass gas or use the bathroom for 3 days.
(d) Not to clean the house.

5. Who does the oracle predict will replace Cleon?
(a) A backer.
(b) A sausage vendor.
(c) A general.
(d) A god.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the think-shop, who is Strepsiades presented to after his enrollment?

2. In the Knights, what do the slaves tell the audience?

3. What are Bdelycleon and his father, Philocleon's, views on Cleon?

4. In Peace, what are the gods feelings about the war in Greece?

5. What are Demosthenes and Nicias doing the night of the play?

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