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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. According to Dikaiopolis, who or what started the war?
(a) A few drunk Athenian men kidnapped a woman.
(b) A difference in religion with the Megarians.
(c) Pericles sent out thunder and lightning.
(d) The Spartians cutting down Athenian vines.

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

3. What does the champion of Pitcher Day win?
(a) Peace.
(b) A basket of food.
(c) Many dancing girls.
(d) A full wine-skin.

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

5. How does Dikaiopolis finally get the Chorus of Acharnians to listen to his side of the story?
(a) He holds the Chorus of Acharnians at knifepoint.
(b) He makes his wife throw stones from the roof.
(c) He threatens to kill a baby.
(d) He threatens to kill a basket of coals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dikaiopolis take as tax from the Thebian?

2. Who is the second ambassador in the assembly to speak?

3. What does The Chorus of Acharnians cry when the first pitcher is finished?

4. Lamachus requests what at the end of the play, The Acharnians?

5. How many samples of peace does Dikaioplois have to choose from?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Dikaiopolis set up his shop?

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

3. Describe Dikaiopolis in the beginning of 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. What kind of student is Strepsiades?

6. Describe "The Great King's Eye."

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

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

9. How do the visiting Ambassadors appear to Dikaiopolis?

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

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