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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are Demosthenes and Nicias doing the night of the play?
(a) Getting drunk and stealing wine.
(b) Talking military tactics.
(c) Playing cards.
(d) They are sleeping.

3. Who does Amphitheus take hostage?
(a) A bag of coal.
(b) A woman.
(c) A man.
(d) A child.

4. What does Pheidippides predict Strepsiades will do after Pheidippides finishes his training at Socrates' School?
(a) Strepsiades will soon create his own school.
(b) Strepsiades will soon create more debt.
(c) Strepsiades will soon be out of debt.
(d) Strepsiades will soon die.

5. Who do Demosthenes and Nicias think is the cause of their trouble?
(a) Their master.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Cleon.
(d) Athena.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At the think-shop, who is Strepsiades presented to after his enrollment?

3. When Dicaeopolis fears the mob, who does Dicaeopolis go to see for help?

4. How does Bdelycleon propose to settle the dispute between him and the Wasps concerning his father?

5. Who is going to war while Dicaeopolis is at the contest?

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