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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What technique does Strepsiades use to justify the beatings he gave to his father?
(a) Twisted logic.
(b) Sound logic.
(c) Non-linear logic.
(d) Cartesian logic.

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

4. What is Strepsiades trying to do after relenting over beating Pheidippides?
(a) Enroll Pheidippides in Socrates' class to get rid of his debt.
(b) Enroll Pheidippides in the army.
(c) Enroll Pheidippides in school so he can find a job.
(d) Enroll Pheidippides in betting classes.

5. At the think-shop, who is Strepsiades presented to after his enrollment?
(a) Pheidippides.
(b) Plato.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Heracles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Pisthetaerus going to take control of at the end of The Birds?

2. Who ferries Dionysus across the river in Hades?

3. What does Dicaeopolis do after the closing of the assembly?

4. In Thesmophoriazusae, what did Mnesilochus' cousin agree to do in order to rescue his cousin?

5. What city do Eulipides and Pisthetaerus want to leave at the beginning of Birds?

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