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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. When Pheidippides gets to school, what does he do?
(a) He enters but doesn't learn anything.
(b) He refuses to go and returns home.
(c) He feels nervous and goes back the next day.
(d) He enters ready to learn.

2. What happens to Lamachus after he leaves Dikaiopolis to go fight?
(a) He deserts the Athenian army.
(b) He is caught by the enemy.
(c) He earns glory for Athens.
(d) He is wounded.

3. Diakiopolis's whole family gets involved with the peace ritual. What does the daughter bring to sacrifice?
(a) Cake and soup.
(b) Cheese and olives.
(c) Ambrosia.
(d) Wine.

4. When Strepsiades and Pheidippides arrive at the school for the first time together, who answers the door?
(a) The Student.
(b) The Chorus of the Clouds.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Chaerephon.

5. What barnyard animal do the Megarian's daughters pose as?
(a) Chickens.
(b) Pigs.
(c) Lambs.
(d) Goats.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the council invite the Great King's Eye to dinner?

2. In The Clouds, who is the protagonist's son?

3. What does Dikaiopolis want to do before his trial?

4. Who comes in after Dikaiopolis finishes his defense?

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

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