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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Amphitheus?
(a) He has a meal with Acharnians.
(b) He visits Acharnian farms.
(c) He is captured by a gang of Acharnians.
(d) He goes back to Sparta.

2. In the Knights, what do the slaves tell the audience?
(a) Cleon is being emancipated.
(b) Cleon is a Spartan.
(c) Everyone loves Cleon.
(d) Everyone is afraid of Cleon.

3. How does Bdelycleon counter his father's arguments?
(a) He says that judges have too much power and the courts should be disbanded.
(b) He says politicians are the ones with real power and use the court for personal gain.
(c) He says that defendants have too much power over judges.
(d) He says that the people attending the courts are too old.

4. Who is being tried in the makeshift court Bdelycleon in his house at the end of The Wasps?
(a) Cleon.
(b) A dog.
(c) Philocleon.
(d) A duck.

5. What does Trygaeus discover upon his arrival in heaven?
(a) The gods are too inebriated to receive him.
(b) He needs an appointment to be received by the gods.
(c) The beetle is dead.
(d) Almost all the gods left.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are Cleon and his rival trying to convince of their worth?

2. What prevented peace from being released sooner according to Trygaeus and Hermes?

3. At the beginning of The Knights, what are Demosthenes and Nicias complaining about?

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

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

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