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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Frogs.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the disagreement between Euripides and his opponent settled?
(a) Dionysus asks each of them to dance.
(b) Dionysus asks each of them to create a new poem.
(c) Dionysus asks each of them to try seducing a woman.
(d) Dionysus asks each of them to give advice on how to help Athens.

2. What do Eulipides and Pisthetaerus propose to the one they meet in the woods?
(a) That the birds fly south to a better climate.
(b) That the birds unite to take control of the earth.
(c) That the monkeys start building houses.
(d) That the birds dance to bring rain.

3. How is Strepsiades expected to learn at the school in which he enrolls?
(a) Dressed as a woman.
(b) On his hand.
(c) Dressed as a bird.
(d) Naked.

4. What is Strepsiades trying to do after relenting over beating Pheidippides?
(a) Enroll Pheidippides in Socrates' class to get rid of his debt.
(b) Enroll Pheidippides in the army.
(c) Enroll Pheidippides in betting classes.
(d) Enroll Pheidippides in school so he can find a job.

5. At the think-shop, who is Strepsiades presented to after his enrollment?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Plato.
(c) Heracles.
(d) Pheidippides.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Dionysus in route to at the beginning of The Frogs?

2. What are the fastest ways to go to Hades according to the text?

3. Who is Xanthias at the beginning of The Frogs?

4. How do Eulipides and Pisthetaerus think the gods can be supplanted?

5. Who helps Pisthetaerus trick Zeus at the end of The Birds?

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