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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who enrolls in the think-shop in Pheidippides' stead?
(a) His brother.
(b) A friend.
(c) His mother.
(d) His father.

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

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

4. What proposal does Amphitheus make to Dicaeopolis?
(a) To help him flee to Sparta.
(b) To help him find a wife.
(c) To help him defeat Sparta.
(d) To broker a private peace deal between Athens and Sparta.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does the teacher eventually decide about Strepsiades?

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