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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Strepsiades trying to do after relenting over beating Pheidippides?
(a) Enroll Pheidippides in Socrates' class to get rid of his debt.
(b) Enroll Pheidippides in school so he can find a job.
(c) Enroll Pheidippides in the army.
(d) Enroll Pheidippides in betting classes.

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

3. What technique does Strepsiades use to justify the beatings he gave to his father?
(a) Twisted logic.
(b) Non-linear logic.
(c) Cartesian logic.
(d) Sound logic.

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

5. Who are the real gods according to the teacher at the think-shop?
(a) Women shaped clouds.
(b) Birds.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Cats.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Strepsiades doing to convince Pheidippides to stop betting?

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

3. What happens when Amphitheus meets with the Spartans?

4. What does Dicaeopolis agree to?

5. What is Pheidippides' vice as introduced in the beginning of The Clouds?

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