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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. At the think-shop, who is Strepsiades presented to after his enrollment?
(a) Heracles.
(b) Pheidippides.
(c) Plato.
(d) Socrates.

4. What is Pheidippides' vice as introduced in the beginning of The Clouds?
(a) Cards.
(b) Women.
(c) Drug.
(d) Horse betting.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After realizing he helped create a monster, what does Strepsiades do at the end of The Clouds?

2. What do Demosthenes and Nicas accuse their fellow slave, Paphlagon, of doing?

3. What are Demosthenes and Nicias doing the night of the play?

4. Who do Demosthenes and Nicias think is the cause of their trouble?

5. How is Strepsiades expected to learn at the school in which he enrolls?

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