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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who foiled Philocleon's plan?
(a) Sosias.
(b) Philocleon.
(c) Xanthias.
(d) Bdelycleon.

3. What is Bdelycleon's father's affliction?
(a) He loves drinking.
(b) He loves women.
(c) He loves the courts.
(d) He loves women.

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

5. Why is Pheidippides refusing to enroll?
(a) Everyone that enrolls is pale and ugly.
(b) Everyone that enrolls dies.
(c) Everyone that enrolls loses money.
(d) Everyone that enrolls abandons betting.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of The Knights, what are Demosthenes and Nicias complaining about?

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

3. In the Wasps, what is the second trick Philocleon uses to try to escape the house Bdelycleon confined him in?

4. Who does the teacher ask for to replace Strepsiades?

5. When Cleon and the sausage merchant are off stage, who is praised in the second part of the speech by the chorus?

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