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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Strepsiades doing to convince Pheidippides to stop betting?
(a) He is beating him up.
(b) He stops loaning him money.
(c) He is having a heart to heart chat.
(d) He forbids him from betting.

2. When Dionysus arrives in Hades, who is Euripides in conflict with?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Plato.
(c) Aeschylus.
(d) Sophocles.

3. 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.

4. Whose money is Pheidippides betting with at the beginning of The Clouds?
(a) His father, Strepsiades' money.
(b) His own.
(c) His sister's money.
(d) Money from a loan.

5. What river does Dionysus go across?
(a) Aliakmonas.
(b) Rubicon.
(c) Acheloos.
(d) The Styx.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Pheidippides' vice as introduced in the beginning of The Clouds?

2. Upon his arrival at the think-shop, how is Strepsiades greeted?

3. Why isn't Xanthias allowed to go across the river with Dionysus?

4. What does Hoopoe's servant claim to be when Euelpides and Pisthetaerus first meet him?

5. What god is caught wandering on earth at the end of The Birds?

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