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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Demosthenes and Nicias doing the night of the play?
(a) Getting drunk and stealing wine.
(b) Talking military tactics.
(c) Playing cards.
(d) They are sleeping.

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

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

4. In the Knights, what do the slaves want to do that has been forbidden?
(a) Go see an Oracle.
(b) Go back to their master.
(c) Go to Sparta.
(d) Kill Cleon.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pheidippides predict Strepsiades will do after Pheidippides finishes his training at Socrates' School?

2. At the beginning of Acharnians, what does Dicaeopolis want to talk about after the assembly?

3. Who does the oracle predict will replace Cleon?

4. How successful is Dicaeopolis' argument to the crowd?

5. How old is Dicaeopolis?

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