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

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

3. What does The Chorus of Acharnians cry when the first pitcher is finished?
(a) Hurry all you others.
(b) Stone the winner.
(c) Hail to the champion.
(d) Fear strike the last to finish.

4. How many members of the Chorus of Acharnians have been elected to serve as an ambassador?
(a) Two.
(b) None.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

5. What hobby will probably bankrupt Strepsiades?
(a) Painting.
(b) Drinking.
(c) Writing.
(d) Horses.

6. The Acharnians opens with a soliloquy by which character?
(a) The Crier.
(b) The Acharnians.
(c) Amphitheus.
(d) Dikaiopolis.

7. When the crier re-enters in Part 4 of The Acharnians to announce the trumpet signal to drink wine, what is Dikaiopolis doing?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Eating.
(d) Cleaning.

8. At the end of The Acharnians, The Chorus of Acharnians decides to follow who offstage, thereby symbolically giving support to which way of life?
(a) Lamachus.
(b) Dikaiopolis.
(c) The Third Messanger.
(d) Nobody, they go their own way.

9. When Pheidippides gets to school, what does he do?
(a) He enters ready to learn.
(b) He feels nervous and goes back the next day.
(c) He enters but doesn't learn anything.
(d) He refuses to go and returns home.

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

11. What does Dikaiopolis give the Megarian for the girls?
(a) Milk and peaches.
(b) Pepper and cheese.
(c) Salt and garlic.
(d) Wine and olives

12. What does Dikaiopolis take as tax from the Thebian?
(a) Eels.
(b) A doorman.
(c) Jam.
(d) A plant.

13. How does Dikaiopolis finally get the Chorus of Acharnians to listen to his side of the story?
(a) He makes his wife throw stones from the roof.
(b) He holds the Chorus of Acharnians at knifepoint.
(c) He threatens to kill a baby.
(d) He threatens to kill a basket of coals.

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

15. The Bride's Slave makes a final plea for some peace from Dikaiopolis. What is her reason?
(a) The Bride is tired of polishing the groom's shield.
(b) The Bride needs the Groom to fix the roof.
(c) The Bride cannot harvest the farm without the Groom.
(d) The Bride wants to enjoy the honeymoon with the Groom.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the Chorus of Acharnians, who can cure all strife?

2. Diakiopolis's whole family gets involved with the peace ritual. What does the daughter bring to sacrifice?

3. Lamachus is faced with a surprise skirmish and needs peace, but Dikaiopolis has other plans. What are they?

4. How does Dikaiopolis designate the free trade area?

5. Who poses as the eunuchs?

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