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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Amphitheus?
(a) He is captured by a gang of Acharnians.
(b) He visits Acharnian farms.
(c) He has a meal with Acharnians.
(d) He goes back to Sparta.

2. In the Knights, what do the slaves tell the audience?
(a) Everyone is afraid of Cleon.
(b) Everyone loves Cleon.
(c) Cleon is being emancipated.
(d) Cleon is a Spartan.

3. What happens when Amphitheus meets with the Spartans?
(a) He has a good meal.
(b) A peace deal is made.
(c) He is imprisoned.
(d) He declares war on Sparta.

4. When Cleon and the sausage merchant are off stage, who is praised in the first part of the speech by the chorus?
(a) Cleon.
(b) Athens' merchant.
(c) Great men of the future.
(d) Great men of the past.

5. At the beginning of The Knights, what are Demosthenes and Nicias complaining about?
(a) The high taxes.
(b) The war with Sparta.
(c) A beating they received from their master.
(d) The government.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Cleon outbid for support at the Boule?

2. What are Sosias and Xanthias doing at the start of The Wasps?

3. What are Demosthenes and Nicias doing the night of the play?

4. At the beginning of Acharnians, what does Dicaeopolis want to talk about after the assembly?

5. After the charges of crimes, who wins the contest of defending themselves to the Knights?

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