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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. According to Dikaiopolis, who or what started the war?
(a) A difference in religion with the Megarians.
(b) Pericles sent out thunder and lightning.
(c) A few drunk Athenian men kidnapped a woman.
(d) The Spartians cutting down Athenian vines.

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

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

4. Why does Pheidippides agree to go to learn rhetoric?
(a) He secretly loves philosophy.
(b) He is half-asleep.
(c) He is bored.
(d) He wants to help Strepsiades.

5. Diakiopolis's whole family gets involved with the peace ritual. What does the daughter bring to sacrifice?
(a) Cheese and olives.
(b) Wine.
(c) Ambrosia.
(d) Cake and soup.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the second ambassador bring as a gift during the assembly?

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. In the end of The Acharnians, Dikaiopolis claims he is keen to do what?

4. Who eats Dikaiopolis's lunch?

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

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