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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Demosthenes and Nicias doing the night of the play?
(a) They are sleeping.
(b) Playing cards.
(c) Getting drunk and stealing wine.
(d) Talking military tactics.

2. In Thesmophoriazusae, what is Mnesilochus cousin's occupation?
(a) Blacksmith.
(b) Merchant.
(c) Backer.
(d) Playwright.

3. How is Cleon's rival able to win?
(a) By being better at logic than Cleon.
(b) By being a better sausage merchant.
(c) By running faster.
(d) By being more shameless.

4. Who is getting married at the end of The Birds?
(a) Sovereignty and Pisthetaerus.
(b) Sovereignty and Hoopoe.
(c) Hera and Pisthetaerus.
(d) Hera and Zeus.

5. When Dicaeopolis fears the mob, who does Dicaeopolis go to see for help?
(a) Aeschylus.
(b) The Persian king.
(c) Euripides.
(d) Seneca.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the visitor from Sparta want?

2. In Thesmophoriazusae, what do the women do with Mnesilochus after uncovering his identity?

3. Who greets Trygaeus upon his arrival at the gates of heaven?

4. In Thesmophoriazusae, what do the women try to do to Mnesilochus to confirm that he is a man?

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

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