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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 Strepsiades arrives at the school with Pheidippides, what does Strepsiades do?
(a) Since Pheidippides doesn't go, Strepsiades doesn't either.
(b) Since Pheidippides doesn't go, Strepsiades does.
(c) Since Pheidippides goes, Strepsiades goes also.
(d) Since Pheidippides goes, Strepsiades goes home.

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

3. Who comes in after Dikaiopolis finishes his defense?
(a) Euripides.
(b) Amphitheus.
(c) Lamachus.
(d) Cleon.

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

5. How does Socrates appear for the first time in The Clouds?
(a) Stage right, like an actor.
(b) From the trap door, like a sneak.
(c) Airborne, like a god in tradegy.
(d) From the audience, like a level-headed philosopher.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Diakiopolis do with the peace after he takes it home?

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

3. How does Dikaiopolis like the first peace?

4. Who does Dikaiopolis enlist to help him before the trial?

5. Why does Pheidippides agree to go to learn rhetoric?

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