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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) Socrates.
(b) The Student.
(c) Chaerephon.
(d) The Chorus of the Clouds.

2. What is Strepsiades ordered to do as he lays in bed?
(a) Dream of philosophy.
(b) Think of one on his problems.
(c) Go to sleep.
(d) Clear his mind.

3. Who does Dikaiopolis meet after he leaves the assembly for home?
(a) Theorus.
(b) The Chorus of Acharnians .
(c) The assembly.
(d) Amphitheus.

4. Whose monologue opens The Clouds?
(a) Chaerephon.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Pheidippides.
(d) Strepsiades.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the least effective way Strepsiades comes up with evading his debt and the reason Socrates gives up?

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

3. What does Socrates try to teach Strepsiades?

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

5. What happens to Lamachus after he leaves Dikaiopolis to go fight?

(see the answer key)

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