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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who is going to war while Dicaeopolis is at the contest?
(a) Lamachus.
(b) Euripides.
(c) The Acharnians.
(d) Amphitheus.

4. How is Cleon's rival able to win?
(a) By running faster.
(b) By being more shameless.
(c) By being a better sausage merchant.
(d) By being better at logic than Cleon.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Dicaeopolis go to see the playwright?

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

4. Who are Cleon and his rival trying to convince of their worth?

5. What do Demosthenes and Nicas accuse their fellow slave, Paphlagon, of doing?

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