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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dicaeopolis agree to?
(a) To enlist in Athens' army.
(b) To put his head on the chopping block while he makes his case to the crowd.
(c) To go back to Sparta.
(d) To talk to the assembly to help lower taxes.

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

3. Who does the oracle predict will replace Cleon?
(a) A sausage vendor.
(b) A general.
(c) A god.
(d) A backer.

4. What does Cleon do after the contest of defending themselves to the Knights?
(a) He thanks the merchant for the sausage.
(b) He goes to the doctor as he can no longer speak.
(c) He accuses everyone of treason for not supporting him.
(d) He thanks everyone for their support.

5. When Cleon and the sausage merchant are off stage, who is praised in the second part of the speech by the chorus?
(a) Sparta.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Horse.
(d) Cleon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the orators preceding Dicaeopolis speak of?

2. In the Knights, what do the slaves want to do that has been forbidden?

3. What happens after Dicaeopolis finishes his speech to the crowd?

4. What does Dicaeopolis wait for at the beginning of Acharnians?

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

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