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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. According to Socrates in Crito, what happens when individuals disagree on the matter of obeying or disobeying laws?
(a) The argument usually ends in violence.
(b) One will usually break the law in defiance of the other.
(c) A new law is crafted from the synthesis of the two positions.
(d) They usually cannot convince one another of the other's position.

5. Which god advises Strepsiades with respect to his faith?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Hermes.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Hephaestus.

6. What does Crito think Socrates displayed during his trial?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Betrayal.
(c) Nobility.
(d) Cowardice.

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

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

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

10. Aristophanes is known for using what kind of rhetoric?
(a) Satire.
(b) Black humor.
(c) Parody.
(d) Sentimentality.

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

12. Which of the following terms best describes Pheidippides?
(a) Generous.
(b) Self-indulgent.
(c) Conservative.
(d) Pious.

13. What does Strepsiades think about the education Socrates offers him?
(a) Strepsiades is made immoral by Socrates' teachings.
(b) Strepsiades finds it fascinating and invaluable.
(c) Socrates' knowledge is rudimentary and beneath him.
(d) Strepsiades is too intellectually weak to make use of it.

14. What format is The Clouds written in?
(a) Novel.
(b) Dialogue.
(c) Monologue.
(d) Play.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In The Clouds, why does Socrates reject tradition?

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

3. What does Socrates try to teach Strepsiades?

4. What text does Pheidippides recite at the party Strepsiades throws for him?

5. What relationship is Strepsiades to Pheidippides?

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