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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. Aristophanes describes all the students in The Clouds as what?
(a) Active.
(b) Fat.
(c) Tan.
(d) Thin.

2. How does Strepsiades eventually get rid of the Second Creditor?
(a) Strepsiades talks himself out of the debt.
(b) Strepsiades pays his debt.
(c) Strepsiades assults the Second Creditor.
(d) The Second Creditor gives up.

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

4. What does Diakiopolis do with the peace after he takes it home?
(a) Makes an offering to Dionysus.
(b) Hides it in his cellar.
(c) Shares it with everybody.
(d) Buries it in the ground.

5. Who can Socrates just not teach in The Clouds?
(a) Chaerephon.
(b) Xanthias.
(c) Strepsiades.
(d) Pheidippides.

Short Answer Questions

1. Diakiopolis's whole family gets involved with the peace ritual. What does the daughter bring to sacrifice?

2. According to the Chorus of Acharnians, who can cure all strife?

3. Why doesn't the Chorus want War at his parties?

4. What is the name of the school Pheidippides is to attend?

5. What barnyard animal do the Megarian's daughters pose as?

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