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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. How does Dikaiopolis overpower Nicarchus?
(a) He trips Nicharus.
(b) He beats Nicharus with one of his straps.
(c) He pokes Nicharus' eyes.
(d) He slaps Nicharus.

2. How does Dikaiopolis make peace?
(a) He gives his life in service to the Spartians.
(b) He signs several treaties.
(c) He pours some wine on the ground.
(d) He sends his son as an ambassador.

3. Dikaiopolis tells his daughter to have what kind of look on her face when she is carrying the basket?
(a) Stoic.
(b) Sad.
(c) Happy.
(d) Sour.

4. This isn't the first time Dikaiopolis got in trouble with the government. What was his past offense?
(a) Cleon accused him of slandering Athens in front of foreigners.
(b) Cleon accused him of treason.
(c) Cleon accused him of swindeling people in the market.
(d) Cleon accused him of plagirism.

5. The Chorus of The Clouds assures Strepsiades that although his studies may be bizarre, he will come into good fortune. After that, they take a break to make an interjection glorifying a particular playwright. Who do they praise and defend?
(a) Aristophanes.
(b) Aeschylus.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Euripides.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the least effective way Strepsiades comes up with evading his debt and the reason Socrates gives up?

2. How does Dikaiopolis agree to speak his side to the Chorus of Acharnians?

3. What barnyard animal do the Megarian's daughters pose as?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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. What can the Thebian use the Informer for?

4. How do the visiting Ambassadors appear to Dikaiopolis?

5. What do all the bugs in The Thinkery suggest?

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

7. How is Euripidies depicted in The Acharnians?

8. What does the Chorus of Acharnians look like?

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

10. How does Dikaiopolis set up his shop?

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