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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Dikaiopolis want to do before his trial?
(a) Acquire a bribe.
(b) Prepare a statement.
(c) Change clothes.
(d) Hire an attorney.

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

5. How does Dikaiopolis like the first peace?
(a) He tastes it, but doesn't like it.
(b) He likes it, but tries another.
(c) He loves it.
(d) He doesn't even try it.

6. What does Dikaiopolis forget before returning to his trial?
(a) Wild flowers.
(b) A harp.
(c) A lute.
(d) Chevril.

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

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

9. 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 swindeling people in the market.
(c) Cleon accused him of plagirism.
(d) Cleon accused him of treason.

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

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

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

13. After Dikaiopolis removes the informer and goes into his house, a Thebian stops outside with his entourage. What do they do?
(a) Play loud music.
(b) Start a riot.
(c) Open a rival market.
(d) Try and go to sleep.

14. What does Dikaiopolis swap with the Thebian?
(a) Some pottery.
(b) The Megeran daughters.
(c) An informer.
(d) The crier.

15. What is Dikaiopolis doing when he sees Lamachus return from battle?
(a) Drinking with dancing girls.
(b) Playing music on the lute.
(c) Singing bawdy songs.
(d) Dancing with his daughters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dikaiopolis do after he makes peace?

2. What is not a part of the costume Dikaiopolis assembles?

3. The peace Dikaiopolis chooses has the scent of what?

4. Why does Pheidippides agree to go to learn rhetoric?

5. Whose monologue opens The Clouds?

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