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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. What is the name of the school Pheidippides is to attend?
(a) The Thoughtery.
(b) The Thinkerator.
(c) The Ruminator.
(d) The Thinkery.

2. Who comes in after Dikaiopolis finishes his defense?
(a) Lamachus.
(b) Cleon.
(c) Amphitheus.
(d) Euripides.

3. Why doesn't the Chorus want War at his parties?
(a) He gets drunk and violent.
(b) He eats all the food.
(c) He offends the guests.
(d) He gets drunk and passes out.

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

5. What happens after Dikaiopolis finishes his defense?
(a) He sneaks off the block.
(b) The Chorus of Acharnians pick up their stones.
(c) He runs for the coals.
(d) The Chorus of Acharnians splits in half.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dercetes comes to Dikaiopolis's home, begging for what?

2. How do Ismenias and the slaves pack Nicharus?

3. When the crier re-enters in Part 4 of The Acharnians to announce the trumpet signal to drink wine, what is Dikaiopolis doing?

4. What hobby will probably bankrupt Strepsiades?

5. What is Strepsiades ordered to do as he lays in bed?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Strepsiades so fretful he can't even sleep in the beginning of The Clouds?

2. 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?

3. Describe the Megarans. How are they depicted?

4. What is Diakaiopolis's argument to the Chorus of Acharnians in his defense?

5. Describe what and how the students study at Socrates's school.

6. What does the Chorus of Acharnians look like?

7. Present the argument that finally wins a few drops of peace from Dikaiopolis.

8. Describe Dikaiopolis in the beginning of The Acharnians.

9. Describe in detail what has caused Strepsiades to accumulate so much debt.

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

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