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

2. What does Dikaiopolis take as tax from the Thebian?
(a) A doorman.
(b) Eels.
(c) A plant.
(d) Jam.

3. 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.

4. What's wrong with the Megarian's appearance?
(a) He and his daughters are very thin.
(b) He and his daughters are without identification.
(c) He and his daughters are dressed inappropriately.
(d) He and his daughters are very fat.

5. In The Clouds, who is the protagonist's son?
(a) Strepsiades.
(b) Chaerephon.
(c) Pheidippides.
(d) Socrates.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Dikaiopolis's wife watch the sacrifice from?

2. As Lamachus gets ready for battle, Dikaiopolis does something else. What is it?

3. At the end of The Acharnians, The Chorus of Acharnians decides to follow who offstage, thereby symbolically giving support to which way of life?

4. What is not a part of the costume Dikaiopolis assembles?

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

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