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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do Demosthenes and Nicas accuse their fellow slave, Paphlagon, of doing?
(a) Not doing his share of chores.
(b) Not cleaning the beetle's stall.
(c) Cooking bad food and accusing them.
(d) Weaseling his way into a position of trust for personal gain.

3. In Peace, what is Hermes trying to prevent after War leaves heaven?
(a) Prevent Trygaeus from feeding his beetle.
(b) Prevent Trygaeus from leaving heaven.
(c) Prevent Trygaeus from freeing the god of peace.
(d) Prevent war from meeting peace

4. What task is assigned to Sosias and Xanthias?
(a) Keeping playwrights from entering the house.
(b) Keeping beggars from entering the house.
(c) Keeping their master's father, Philocleon, in the house.
(d) Keeping their master's father from entering the house.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Amphitheus take hostage?

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

3. What god(s) does Trygeaeus find willingly remain in heaven?

4. Whose money is Pheidippides betting with at the beginning of The Clouds?

5. How does Bdelycleon propose to settle the dispute between him and the Wasps concerning his father?

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