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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word best describes the way Socrates speaks to Strepsiades?

2. Who or what are the Chorus of Acharnians looking for when they make their first appearance?

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

4. Who does Dikaiopolis enlist to help him before the trial?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the visiting Ambassadors appear to Dikaiopolis?

2. Describe Dikaiopolis in the beginning of The Acharnians.

3. What can the Thebian use the Informer for?

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

5. How does Dikaiopolis react when Dercetes asks him to share some of the peace?

6. Describe the Megarans. How are they depicted?

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

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

9. What does the Chorus of Acharnians look like?

10. Describe the army sent from Thrace brought by Theorus.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The gods and goddesses are peppered through Aristophanes's work. Collect and describe the gods place in Athenian everyday life. Talk about the relationship between the gods and the people.

Essay Topic 2

Pick two characters from different plays and compare and contrast them. Draw a conclusion about Aristophanes's messages to Athenians.

Essay Topic 3

Now that we know a frame is a literary and dramatic device used to give the audience a way to look and understand the world of the play, such as Dikaiopolis suggesting in his beginning monologue all of his best memories are from theatre experiences, identify at least three other frames in the plays by Aristophanes. Know that frames can be physical as well as cultural or historical. Compare and contrast the frames used by Aristophanes and how the play would be different without them.

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