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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) Young Eros.
(b) Aphrodite.
(c) The Graces.
(d) Reconciliation.

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

3. Dercetes comes to Dikaiopolis's home, begging for what?
(a) Thrush.
(b) Peace.
(c) Lamp wicks.
(d) Rabbit.

4. Who does Dikaiopolis enlist to help him before the trial?
(a) Euripides.
(b) Theorus.
(c) Lamachus.
(d) Amphitheus.

5. What's wrong with the Megarian's appearance?
(a) He and his daughters are very fat.
(b) He and his daughters are dressed inappropriately.
(c) He and his daughters are without identification.
(d) He and his daughters are very thin.

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. Aristophanes describes all the students in The Clouds as what?
(a) Active.
(b) Fat.
(c) Tan.
(d) Thin.

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

14. Dikaiopolis tells his daughter to have what kind of look on her face when she is carrying the basket?
(a) Happy.
(b) Stoic.
(c) Sad.
(d) Sour.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Strepsiades complain to while he is supposed to be sleeping?

2. When the Chorus of Acharnians finds Dikaiopolis, what do they want to do to him?

3. What does Socrates try to teach Strepsiades?

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

5. How does Socrates appear for the first time in The Clouds?

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