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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Cleon and the sausage merchant are off stage, who is praised in the second part of the speech by the chorus?
(a) Sparta.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Cleon.
(d) Horse.

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

3. How does Bdelycleon propose to settle the dispute between him and the Wasps concerning his father?
(a) To allow his father back in court.
(b) To have a debate.
(c) To write a play.
(d) To toss a coin.

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

5. Who is going to war while Dicaeopolis is at the contest?
(a) Amphitheus.
(b) The Acharnians.
(c) Euripides.
(d) Lamachus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is specifically targeted in Bdelycleon's counter-argument?

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

3. Who is being tried in the makeshift court Bdelycleon in his house at the end of The Wasps?

4. Who are the real gods according to the teacher at the think-shop?

5. When Cleon and the sausage merchant are off stage, who is praised in the first part of the speech by the chorus?

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