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

3. Citizens could not be good individuals without what?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Laws.
(c) Science.
(d) Religion.

4. Strepsiades' ultimate fear about Pheidippides revolves around which taboo?
(a) Incest.
(b) Murder.
(c) Cult religions.
(d) Mental illness.

5. What text does Pheidippides recite at the party Strepsiades throws for him?
(a) A poem about thievery.
(b) A dialogue in which Plato is humiliated by Socrates.
(c) A poem about incest.
(d) A play about rape.

6. What problem is Strepsiades dealing with at the beginning of The Clouds?
(a) His mother has been murdered.
(b) He is fleeing from the law.
(c) He has a great crisis of faith.
(d) He is overwhelmed with debt.

7. What is the name of Socrates' institute in The Clouds?
(a) The Sentinel.
(b) The Thinkery.
(c) The Athenian Institute of Higher Learning.
(d) Achilles' Homeland.

8. Socrates and Crito agree that the individual should follow what?
(a) Their in-the-moment emotions.
(b) The truth.
(c) The law.
(d) Popular opinion.

9. What decision is Socrates faced with at the beginning of Crito?
(a) Whether to beg for his life, or suffer a more noble death.
(b) Whether to escape Athens with Crito's help, or suffer a life in prison.
(c) Whether to give up the location of his students, or suffer torture.
(d) Whether to escape Athens with Crito's help, or face the death sentence.

10. How can Crito's emotional state during Socrates' trial be characterized?
(a) Furious.
(b) Proud.
(c) Happy.
(d) Embarrassed.

11. What is Socrates' stance with respect to his sentence?
(a) He will fight his sentence aggressively.
(b) He will ask his friends to appeal to the court for mercy.
(c) He will not resist his sentence.
(d) He will find a way to avoid his sentence.

12. Which is NOT one of the benefits of law, according to Socrates in Crito?
(a) They lead to people doing what is truly best.
(b) Laws bring about the flourishing of cities.
(c) Laws increase education in the citizenry.
(d) Laws produce good citizens.

13. According to The Clouds, what force holds communities and families together?
(a) The oracle at Delphi.
(b) A faith in Zeus.
(c) Intellectual rigor.
(d) Charity.

14. What makes a law just, according to Socrates?
(a) Objective goodness.
(b) Piety.
(c) The authority of a city.
(d) Popular opinion.

15. What would happen if Socrates fled to a city that was well-governed?
(a) He would be a law-breaker, and suffer from the same bad reputation.
(b) He could live a life free from political ambition.
(c) He would finally get justice.
(d) He could plot his revenge.