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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Strepsiades arrives at the school with Pheidippides, what does Strepsiades do?
(a) Since Pheidippides doesn't go, Strepsiades doesn't either.
(b) Since Pheidippides goes, Strepsiades goes home.
(c) Since Pheidippides goes, Strepsiades goes also.
(d) Since Pheidippides doesn't go, Strepsiades does.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Ambassador from Persia bring back to the Assembly?

2. How much longer after the second ambassador does the assembly stay open?

3. How does Dikaiopolis make peace?

4. How does Dikaiopolis finally get the Chorus of Acharnians to listen to his side of the story?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are the Chorus of Acharnians angry as they make their first appearance in The Acharnians?

2. What can the Thebian use the Informer for?

3. The playwright highlights Dikaiopolis's character arc by juxtaposing Lamachus getting ready for battle with Dikaiopolis getting ready to go feast. How has the character of Dikaiopolis changed?

4. Describe the outfit Dikaiopolis assembles for his defense.

5. Dikaiopolis refuses business only to one slave. Why is that?

6. In The Acharnians, what do you think the playwright is saying about the way of war and the way of peace as his overall message?

7. How is Euripidies depicted in The Acharnians?

8. Describe the Megarans. How are they depicted?

9. What is Pheidippides immediate opinion of Socrates's school?

10. Describe Dikaiopolis in the beginning of The Acharnians.

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