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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 the Chorus of Acharnians finds Dikaiopolis, what do they want to do to him?
(a) Stone him.
(b) Offer a sacrifice.
(c) Watch the sacrifice.
(d) Burn him at the stake.

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

3. Socrates and Strepsiades brainstorm ways that Strepsiades can what?
(a) Avoid paying interest.
(b) Sleep in a bed full of bugs.
(c) Make interest back.
(d) Trick his son into learning rhetoric.

4. The Acharnians opens with a soliloquy by which character?
(a) Dikaiopolis.
(b) The Acharnians.
(c) The Crier.
(d) Amphitheus.

5. Who does Strepsiades complain to while he is supposed to be sleeping?
(a) Chaerephon.
(b) The Chorus of Clouds.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Phieidippides.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the school Pheidippides is to attend?

2. After Dikaiopolis removes the informer and goes into his house, a Thebian stops outside with his entourage. What do they do?

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

4. According to Socrates, why does a gnat make a humming noise?

5. What does Dikaiopolis want to do before his trial?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Dikaiopolis in the beginning of The Acharnians.

2. How is Euripidies depicted in The Acharnians?

3. 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?

4. What is the Chorus of Acharnians's attitude toward Dikaiopolis and Lamachus at the end of the play?

5. Describe the Megarans. How are they depicted?

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

7. Describe the entourage that enters with the Thebian, Dikaiopolis' second customer.

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

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

10. 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?

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