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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Clouds, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lamachus is faced with a surprise skirmish and needs peace, but Dikaiopolis has other plans. What are they?
(a) To eat the dinner he prepared earlier.
(b) He wants to take a nap.
(c) Dinner with the Priest of Dionysus.
(d) Clean up the mess from his cooking.

2. How does Dikaiopolis finally get the Chorus of Acharnians to listen to his side of the story?
(a) He threatens to kill a baby.
(b) He threatens to kill a basket of coals.
(c) He holds the Chorus of Acharnians at knifepoint.
(d) He makes his wife throw stones from the roof.

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

4. How many samples of peace does Dikaioplois have to choose from?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

5. In the end of The Acharnians, Dikaiopolis claims he is keen to do what?
(a) Cook for everyone else.
(b) Go to bed.
(c) Continue selling in his market.
(d) Share his peace.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dikaiopolis like the first peace?

2. How does Socrates appear for the first time in The Clouds?

3. When the crier re-enters in Part 4 of The Acharnians to announce the trumpet signal to drink wine, what is Dikaiopolis doing?

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

5. After Dikaiopolis removes the informer and goes into his house, a Thebian stops outside with his entourage. What do they do?

(see the answer key)

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