The Acharnians [and] the Clouds [and] Lysistrata Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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The Acharnians [and] the Clouds [and] Lysistrata Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the champion of Pitcher Day win?
(a) A full wine-skin.
(b) Peace.
(c) Many dancing girls.
(d) A basket of food.

2. What does Diakiopolis do with the peace after he takes it home?
(a) Shares it with everybody.
(b) Buries it in the ground.
(c) Hides it in his cellar.
(d) Makes an offering to Dionysus.

3. How many samples of peace does Dikaioplois have to choose from?
(a) One.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

4. How does Dikaiopolis designate the free trade area?
(a) A grassy patch off to the side.
(b) A line drawn in the sand.
(c) Sticks laid on the ground.
(d) Stones laid on the ground,

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

6. How much longer after the second ambassador does the assembly stay open?
(a) They see several more ambassadors, and close.
(b) They close after the second ambassador.
(c) They see one more ambassador, then close.
(d) They work into the night.

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

8. How does Dikaiopolis make peace?
(a) He sends his son as an ambassador.
(b) He signs several treaties.
(c) He pours some wine on the ground.
(d) He gives his life in service to the Spartians.

9. What is the least effective way Strepsiades comes up with evading his debt and the reason Socrates gives up?
(a) Strepsiades realizes if he's in another country they cannot find him.
(b) Strepsiades decides to steal the money.
(c) Strepsiades suggests he hang himself because if he is dead he cannot pay his debts.
(d) Strepsiades decides he will change his name.

10. What is Lamachus doing when he sees Dikaiopolis at the end of The Acharnians?
(a) Carrying loot from his spoils.
(b) Being carried by two soldiers.
(c) Pouring a drink.
(d) Making a peace offering.

11. How much does the first Ambassador make in a day?
(a) Two drachmas.
(b) Ten drachmas.
(c) Four dracmas.
(d) One drachma.

12. Why does Nicarchus denounce the Thebian?
(a) He is actually a spy.
(b) His food will poison the people.
(c) His lampwicks may set fire to the Docks.
(d) His doormats will fall apart.

13. This isn't the first time Dikaiopolis got in trouble with the government. What was his past offense?
(a) Cleon accused him of slandering Athens in front of foreigners.
(b) Cleon accused him of treason.
(c) Cleon accused him of swindeling people in the market.
(d) Cleon accused him of plagirism.

14. Who poses as the eunuchs?
(a) Two dancing girls.
(b) Nobody, they are really eunuchs.
(c) Cleisthenes and Strato.
(d) Wrong and Right.

15. What word best describes the way Socrates speaks to Strepsiades?
(a) Confusing.
(b) Clear.
(c) Astute.
(d) Articulate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first person to drink a whole pitcher on Pitcher Day?

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

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

4. When the crier re-enters in Part 4 of The Acharnians to announce the trumpet signal to drink wine, what is Dikaiopolis doing?

5. What does Dikaiopolis give the Megarian for the girls?

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