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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 Pheidippides predict Strepsiades will do after Pheidippides finishes his training at Socrates' School?
(a) Strepsiades will soon create his own school.
(b) Strepsiades will soon be out of debt.
(c) Strepsiades will soon create more debt.
(d) Strepsiades will soon die.

2. What are Sosias and Xanthias doing at the start of The Wasps?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Writing a play.
(c) Keeping watch over their master Bdelycleon's house.
(d) Playing cards.

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

4. What does Dicaeopolis wait for at the beginning of Acharnians?
(a) His wife to come back from the Oracle.
(b) Sparta to surrender to Athens.
(c) The assembly to begin.
(d) Athens to surrender to Sparta.

5. How old is Dicaeopolis?
(a) He is a young boy.
(b) He is a young man.
(c) He is a middle aged man.
(d) He is an old man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the judges entitled to according to Bdelycleon?

2. What does Cleon do after the contest of defending themselves to the Knights?

3. Why does Dicaeopolis go to see the playwright?

4. How is Cleon's rival able to win?

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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