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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who does the oracle predict will replace Cleon?
(a) A sausage vendor.
(b) A general.
(c) A god.
(d) A backer.
2. In the Knights, what do the slaves want to do that has been forbidden?
(a) Go see an Oracle.
(b) Go to Sparta.
(c) Go back to their master.
(d) Kill Cleon.
3. Why is Pheidippides refusing to enroll?
(a) Everyone that enrolls abandons betting.
(b) Everyone that enrolls is pale and ugly.
(c) Everyone that enrolls loses money.
(d) Everyone that enrolls dies.
4. Based on the debate, what does Philocleon like about the court?
(a) Hearing the arguments and having power over the judge.
(b) Being able to rest in the court and being paid.
(c) Having power of the defendant and sleeping in the court.
(d) Hearing the arguments, being paid and having power over the defendant.
5. What does peace and Hermes give Trygaeus to thank him for liberating Peace?
(a) Harvesthome as his wife.
(b) Another giant beetle.
(c) Harvesthome as a slave.
(d) Mayfair as his wife.
6. When Dicaeopolis fears the mob, who does Dicaeopolis go to see for help?
(a) Aeschylus.
(b) Seneca.
(c) Euripides.
(d) The Persian king.
7. Who are the real gods according to the teacher at the think-shop?
(a) Cats.
(b) Birds.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Women shaped clouds.
8. What does Bdelycleon order his slaves to do?
(a) To cap the chimney.
(b) To wall the door.
(c) To replace the wood door with a steel door.
(d) To nail the door.
9. What happens after Dicaeopolis finishes his speech to the crowd?
(a) The ones that are convinced and the ones that are not fight.
(b) Dicaeopolis escapes.
(c) Dicaeopolis is freed.
(d) Dicaeopolis is put to death.
10. How successful is Dicaeopolis' argument to the crowd?
(a) Half of the crowd is convinced and the other half is not.
(b) No one is convinced.
(c) Everyone is convinced.
(d) Women are convinced and men are not.
11. What does Cleon do after the contest of defending themselves to the Knights?
(a) He thanks everyone for their support.
(b) He goes to the doctor as he can no longer speak.
(c) He thanks the merchant for the sausage.
(d) He accuses everyone of treason for not supporting him.
12. What prevented peace from being released sooner according to Trygaeus and Hermes?
(a) War profiteering.
(b) The beetle.
(c) The government.
(d) Generals.
13. In the Clouds, where does Socrates go when he needs to think?
(a) Upside down.
(b) In a closet.
(c) In a basket suspended from the ceiling.
(d) In his bed.
14. Who foiled Philocleon's plan?
(a) Xanthias.
(b) Philocleon.
(c) Bdelycleon.
(d) Sosias.
15. What task is assigned to Sosias and Xanthias?
(a) Keeping playwrights from entering the house.
(b) Keeping their master's father from entering the house.
(c) Keeping beggars from entering the house.
(d) Keeping their master's father, Philocleon, in the house.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who greets Trygaeus upon his arrival at the gates of heaven?
2. When Cleon and the sausage merchant are off stage, who is praised in the first part of the speech by the chorus?
3. What does Trygaeus ask his servants and daughter not to do?
4. Who is being tried in the makeshift court Bdelycleon in his house at the end of The Wasps?
5. What contest do Cleon and his possible replacement engage in?
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