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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Demosthenes and Nicas accuse their fellow slave, Paphlagon, of doing?
(a) Not cleaning the beetle's stall.
(b) Weaseling his way into a position of trust for personal gain.
(c) Cooking bad food and accusing them.
(d) Not doing his share of chores.

2. When Cleon and the sausage merchant are off stage, who is praised in the first part of the speech by the chorus?
(a) Great men of the future.
(b) Great men of the past.
(c) Athens' merchant.
(d) Cleon.

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

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

5. What proposal does Amphitheus make to Dicaeopolis?
(a) To help him flee to Sparta.
(b) To help him defeat Sparta.
(c) To broker a private peace deal between Athens and Sparta.
(d) To help him find a wife.

6. When Dicaeopolis fears the mob, who does Dicaeopolis go to see for help?
(a) Aeschylus.
(b) The Persian king.
(c) Euripides.
(d) Seneca.

7. What happened to the Acharnians' farms before the play begins?
(a) They were sold to Sparta.
(b) They were built on loose soil.
(c) They had good crops.
(d) They were burned down by Spartans.

8. What technique does Strepsiades use to justify the beatings he gave to his father?
(a) Cartesian logic.
(b) Twisted logic.
(c) Non-linear logic.
(d) Sound logic.

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

10. Who is specifically targeted in Bdelycleon's counter-argument?
(a) Cleon.
(b) Nobody is targeted.
(c) Siseron.
(d) The government as a whole.

11. In Peace, what is Hermes trying to prevent after War leaves heaven?
(a) Prevent Trygaeus from freeing the god of peace.
(b) Prevent Trygaeus from leaving heaven.
(c) Prevent war from meeting peace
(d) Prevent Trygaeus from feeding his beetle.

12. What happens when Amphitheus meets with the Spartans?
(a) He has a good meal.
(b) A peace deal is made.
(c) He is imprisoned.
(d) He declares war on Sparta.

13. What does Trygaeus do after arriving in heaven?
(a) He goes back home.
(b) He argues with the god.
(c) He hits the god.
(d) He feeds his beetle.

14. How does Bdelycleon counter his father's arguments?
(a) He says that the people attending the courts are too old.
(b) He says politicians are the ones with real power and use the court for personal gain.
(c) He says that defendants have too much power over judges.
(d) He says that judges have too much power and the courts should be disbanded.

15. At the end of Peace, how does the celebration end?
(a) War comes back.
(b) Zeus refuses to assist in the wedding.
(c) People steal the bride and escape flying on a giant beetle.
(d) People are celebrating, using war instruments as peaceful tools.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of contest is Dicaeopolis invited to participate in?

2. What does Bdelycleon order his slaves to do?

3. What is the relationship between Strepsiades and Pheidippides?

4. Who foiled Philocleon's plan?

5. Why is Pheidippides refusing to enroll?

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