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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Dikaiopolis's wife watch the sacrifice from?
(a) The yard.
(b) The altar.
(c) The roof.
(d) A window.

2. Socrates checks on a not-sleeping Strepsiades by doing what?
(a) Patting his head.
(b) Kicking him.
(c) Shaking him.
(d) Poking him.

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

4. What barnyard animal do the Megarian's daughters pose as?
(a) Pigs.
(b) Goats.
(c) Lambs.
(d) Chickens.

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

6. How does Socrates appear for the first time in The Clouds?
(a) From the audience, like a level-headed philosopher.
(b) From the trap door, like a sneak.
(c) Stage right, like an actor.
(d) Airborne, like a god in tradegy.

7. Who is chasing Amphitheus?
(a) The Chorus of Acharnians.
(b) The assembly.
(c) Dikaiopolis.
(d) Zeus.

8. In Part 3 of The Acharnians, an informer denounces the Megarian girls as what?
(a) Sacrifices.
(b) Girls, not pigs.
(c) Contraband.
(d) Spartians.

9. Where does the council invite the Great King's Eye to dinner?
(a) Persia.
(b) The City Mansion.
(c) The Thinkery.
(d) The Temple of Athena.

10. Does Dikaiopolis sell to the slave?
(a) Yes.
(b) Yes, but at twice the price.
(c) Yes, but not the eels.
(d) No.

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

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

13. What did Dercetes lose?
(a) His oxen.
(b) His slaves.
(c) His wife.
(d) His job.

14. Who does Strepsiades complain to while he is supposed to be sleeping?
(a) The Chorus of Clouds.
(b) Phieidippides.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Chaerephon.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Dikaiopolis doing when he sees Lamachus return from battle?

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

3. The Chorus of The Clouds assures Strepsiades that although his studies may be bizarre, he will come into good fortune. After that, they take a break to make an interjection glorifying a particular playwright. Who do they praise and defend?

4. Whose monologue opens The Clouds?

5. In Part 2 of The Acharnians, who is the Chorus composed of?

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