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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 least effective way Strepsiades comes up with evading his debt and the reason Socrates gives up?
(a) Strepsiades suggests he hang himself because if he is dead he cannot pay his debts.
(b) Strepsiades decides to steal the money.
(c) Strepsiades realizes if he's in another country they cannot find him.
(d) Strepsiades decides he will change his name.

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

3. 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.

4. Who or what are the Chorus of Acharnians looking for when they make their first appearance?
(a) War.
(b) Cleon.
(c) Diakiopolis.
(d) Peace.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who eats Dikaiopolis's lunch?

2. According to Dikaiopolis, who or what started the war?

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

5. Who does Dikaiopolis meet after he leaves the assembly for home?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the Chorus of Archanians when Diakaiopolis finishes his defense?

2. How is Euripidies depicted in The Acharnians?

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

4. Dikaiopolis and Lamachus meet again just after Dikaiopolis shared a few drops of peace with the bride. What is notable about how their situations have changed since the beginning of the play?

5. How does the Chorus of Acharnians feel about Dikaiopolis after the Megaran leaves?

6. Describe Dikaiopolis in the beginning of The Acharnians.

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

8. The Leader of The Chorus of The Clouds directly addresses the audience just after Strepsiades enters The Thinkery. Summarize their direct appeal.

9. What does the Chorus of Acharnians look like?

10. 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?

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