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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 the reaction of the one that is supposed to replace Cleon?
(a) Overjoyed.
(b) He refuses the honor.
(c) Frightened.
(d) Skeptical.

2. Who does Amphitheus take hostage?
(a) A child.
(b) A man.
(c) A woman.
(d) A bag of coal.

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

4. After realizing he helped create a monster, what does Strepsiades do at the end of The Clouds?
(a) Burns the school down.
(b) Asks his son to leave the house.
(c) Enrolls himself in the school again.
(d) Burns his home down.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cleon do after the contest of defending themselves to the Knights?

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

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

4. Why does Dicaeopolis go to see the playwright?

5. What became of Pheidippides?

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