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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Aristophanes' Clouds.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Socrates heartened about the possibility of an afterlife?
(a) He will be able to continue his philosophical discussions there.
(b) He will finally be the warrior he was destined to be.
(c) He will be able to visit oracles and learn about other lands.
(d) He will be able to properly plot his revenge upon the living.

2. Why does Strepsiades throw Pheidippides a party?
(a) Pheidippides is getting married.
(b) Pheidippides successfully tricked Strepsiades' creditors.
(c) Pheidippides has agreed to murder Socrates.
(d) Strepsiades is celebrating Pheidippides' passage into manhood.

3. At what point does Strepsiades stop speaking to Pheidippides?
(a) When Pheidippides enrolls with Socrates.
(b) When Pheidippides threatens to beat up his own mother.
(c) When Pheidippides reads a poem about incest.
(d) When Pheidippides tries to trick Strepsiades' creditors.

4. Pheidippides recites a text written by which man?
(a) Plato.
(b) Sophocles.
(c) Euripides.
(d) Aristophanes.

5. Where does Apology take place?
(a) Sparta.
(b) Egypt.
(c) Rome.
(d) Athens.

Short Answer Questions

1. What problem is Strepsiades dealing with at the beginning of The Clouds?

2. How does Socrates end the Crito dialogue?

3. In Euthyphro, what problem does Socrates have with the suggestion that it is good to be dear to the gods?

4. Who is the god which the majority of Athenians pray to as their primary god?

5. Why does Socrates say that he is not impious?

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