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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Clouds, Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Dikaiopolis enlist to help him before the trial?
(a) Euripides.
(b) Amphitheus.
(c) Theorus.
(d) Lamachus.

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

3. Socrates and Strepsiades brainstorm ways that Strepsiades can what?
(a) Trick his son into learning rhetoric.
(b) Make interest back.
(c) Sleep in a bed full of bugs.
(d) Avoid paying interest.

4. What is wrong with Strepsiades's bed when he tries to go to sleep?
(a) It smells too good.
(b) It is too soft.
(c) It is full of bugs.
(d) It is too big.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who can Socrates just not teach in The Clouds?

2. Socrates checks on a not-sleeping Strepsiades by doing what?

3. What does the Bridegroom's Slave offer Dikaiopolis for just one ladle of peace?

4. The Acharnians opens with a soliloquy by which character?

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

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