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

2. What does Dikaiopolis do after he makes peace?
(a) Pledges to share the peace wine with everyone.
(b) Takes the wine into his house to celebrate.
(c) Talks to the Acharnians about their differences in opinion.
(d) Offers some wine to Amphitheus.

3. After Dikaiopolis removes the informer and goes into his house, a Thebian stops outside with his entourage. What do they do?
(a) Start a riot.
(b) Try and go to sleep.
(c) Play loud music.
(d) Open a rival market.

4. What does Dikaiopolis forget before returning to his trial?
(a) Chevril.
(b) A harp.
(c) Wild flowers.
(d) A lute.

5. When the Chorus of Acharnians finds Dikaiopolis, what do they want to do to him?
(a) Burn him at the stake.
(b) Stone him.
(c) Watch the sacrifice.
(d) Offer a sacrifice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does The Chorus of Acharnians cry when the first pitcher is finished?

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

3. Dikaiopolis tells his daughter to have what kind of look on her face when she is carrying the basket?

4. In the beginning of The Acharnians, who arrives late to the assembly and speaks to the crowd first?

5. The Third Messenger announces what?

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