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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What is the name of the school Pheidippides is to attend?
(a) The Thoughtery.
(b) The Thinkerator.
(c) The Ruminator.
(d) The Thinkery.

3. How does Dikaiopolis agree to speak his side to the Chorus of Acharnians?
(a) With his head over a block.
(b) In a headlock.
(c) Blindfolded.
(d) On a catapult, ready to launch.

4. Who carries Nicharchus as the Thebian entourage leaves?
(a) The Leader.
(b) The slaves.
(c) Ismenias.
(d) Thebian.

5. What does the Ambassador from Persia bring back to the Assembly?
(a) Peace.
(b) Wine.
(c) "The Great King's Eye."
(d) Gold.

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

7. Which peace does Dikaiopolis choose?
(a) The ten year peace.
(b) The fifteen year peace.
(c) The five year peace.
(d) The thirty year peace.

8. Who is the second ambassador in the assembly to speak?
(a) Ismenias.
(b) Dercetes.
(c) Nicarchus.
(d) Theorus.

9. What is wrong with Strepsiades's bed when he tries to go to sleep?
(a) It is full of bugs.
(b) It is too big.
(c) It is too soft.
(d) It smells too good.

10. In the end of The Acharnians, Dikaiopolis claims he is keen to do what?
(a) Continue selling in his market.
(b) Share his peace.
(c) Go to bed.
(d) Cook for everyone else.

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

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

13. According to the Chorus of Acharnians, who can cure all strife?
(a) The Graces.
(b) Aphrodite.
(c) Reconciliation.
(d) Young Eros.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why doesn't the Chorus want War at his parties?

4. What does Dikaiopolis take as tax from the Thebian?

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

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