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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the teacher ask for to replace Strepsiades?
(a) Plato.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Pheidippides.
(d) Socrates.

2. Why is Pheidippides refusing to enroll?
(a) Everyone that enrolls is pale and ugly.
(b) Everyone that enrolls loses money.
(c) Everyone that enrolls abandons betting.
(d) Everyone that enrolls dies.

3. What does Dicaeopolis agree to?
(a) To talk to the assembly to help lower taxes.
(b) To put his head on the chopping block while he makes his case to the crowd.
(c) To go back to Sparta.
(d) To enlist in Athens' army.

4. What is Strepsiades trying to do after relenting over beating Pheidippides?
(a) Enroll Pheidippides in school so he can find a job.
(b) Enroll Pheidippides in Socrates' class to get rid of his debt.
(c) Enroll Pheidippides in betting classes.
(d) Enroll Pheidippides in the army.

5. What is Cleon's rival, the sausage merchant's real name?
(a) Dionysus.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Agoracritus.
(d) Acokotus.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In the Wasps, how does Philocleon try to escape the house Bdelycleon confined him in?

4. At the think-shop, who is Strepsiades presented to after his enrollment?

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

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