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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What city do Eulipides and Pisthetaerus want to leave at the beginning of Birds?
(a) Athens.
(b) Tripoli.
(c) Sparta.
(d) Corinth.

3. At the beginning of The Knights, what are Demosthenes and Nicias complaining about?
(a) The government.
(b) The high taxes.
(c) The war with Sparta.
(d) A beating they received from their master.

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

5. How do Eulipides and Pisthetaerus think the gods can be supplanted?
(a) By stealing fire from men.
(b) By building a castle between earth and heaven.
(c) By stealing Zeus' thunder.
(d) By dressing like birds.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the attendees react to the proposal made by Lysistrata?

2. How old is Dicaeopolis?

3. Who does the teacher ask for to replace Strepsiades?

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

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

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