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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Amphitheus?
(a) He is captured by a gang of Acharnians.
(b) He goes back to Sparta.
(c) He visits Acharnian farms.
(d) He has a meal with Acharnians.

2. Who do Demosthenes and Nicias think is the cause of their trouble?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Cleon.
(c) Their master.
(d) Athena.

3. How is Cleon outbid for support at the Boule?
(a) Cleon is not outbid.
(b) The merchant goes on strike.
(c) The sausage seller threatens the council.
(d) The sausage seller promises free food to the council.

4. What does the teacher eventually decide about Strepsiades?
(a) Strepsiades cannot be taught.
(b) Strepsiades has learned everything he could.
(c) Strepsiades can become the master.
(d) Strepsiades is too fat.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the relationship between Strepsiades and Pheidippides?

3. In the Clouds, where does Socrates go when he needs to think?

4. Who enrolls in the think-shop in Pheidippides' stead?

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

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