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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the orators preceding Dicaeopolis speak of?
(a) Internal policies.
(b) Taxes.
(c) Trivial things.
(d) The war.

2. What do Demosthenes and Nicas accuse their fellow slave, Paphlagon, of doing?
(a) Not doing his share of chores.
(b) Not cleaning the beetle's stall.
(c) Cooking bad food and accusing them.
(d) Weaseling his way into a position of trust for personal gain.

3. 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) Great men of the future.
(c) Cleon.
(d) Great men of the past.

4. How successful is Dicaeopolis' argument to the crowd?
(a) No one is convinced.
(b) Women are convinced and men are not.
(c) Half of the crowd is convinced and the other half is not.
(d) Everyone is convinced.

5. What does Dicaeopolis wait for at the beginning of Acharnians?
(a) The assembly to begin.
(b) His wife to come back from the Oracle.
(c) Sparta to surrender to Athens.
(d) Athens to surrender to Sparta.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of contest is Dicaeopolis invited to participate in?

2. What happens when Amphitheus meets with the Spartans?

3. What contest do Cleon and his possible replacement engage in?

4. What happened to the Acharnians' farms before the play begins?

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

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