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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Clouds, Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the least effective way Strepsiades comes up with evading his debt and the reason Socrates gives up?
(a) Strepsiades decides he will change his name.
(b) Strepsiades suggests he hang himself because if he is dead he cannot pay his debts.
(c) Strepsiades decides to steal the money.
(d) Strepsiades realizes if he's in another country they cannot find him.

2. What has changed about Pheidippides's appearance since he entered The Thinkery?
(a) He has grown slightly taller.
(b) He has become very tan.
(c) He has become slightly fatter.
(d) He has become much more pale.

3. According to the Chorus of Acharnians, who can cure all strife?
(a) Reconciliation.
(b) Young Eros.
(c) The Graces.
(d) Aphrodite.

4. Dikaiopolis tells his daughter to have what kind of look on her face when she is carrying the basket?
(a) Sour.
(b) Happy.
(c) Stoic.
(d) Sad.

5. In The Clouds, what is the First Creditor collecting for?
(a) The chariot.
(b) The ash-colored horse.
(c) The stable fees.
(d) The pony.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Strepsiades arrives at the school with Pheidippides, what does Strepsiades do?

2. What happens after Dikaiopolis finishes his defense?

3. According to Dikaiopolis, who or what started the war?

4. Pheidippides uses his education from The Thinkery to rationalize what?

5. What does The Chorus of The Clouds predict about Strepsiades after this encounter with the Second Creditor?

(see the answer key)

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