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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is Cleon's rival, the sausage merchant's real name?
(a) Acokotus.
(b) Agoracritus.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Dionysus.
2. What task is assigned to Sosias and Xanthias?
(a) Keeping beggars from entering the house.
(b) Keeping their master's father from entering the house.
(c) Keeping playwrights from entering the house.
(d) Keeping their master's father, Philocleon, in the house.
3. What are Bdelycleon and his father, Philocleon's, views on Cleon?
(a) Bdelycleon hates Cleon and Philocleon loves Cleon.
(b) Bdelycleon loves Cleon and Philocleon hates Cleon.
(c) They both love Cleon.
(d) They both hate Cleon.
4. Who is Demosthenes and Nicias' master?
(a) Scemos.
(b) Amos.
(c) Lemos.
(d) Demos.
5. Who greets Trygaeus upon his arrival at the gates of heaven?
(a) Hermes.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Hera.
(d) Heracles.
6. What does Dicaeopolis do after the closing of the assembly?
(a) He meets a man named Amphitheus.
(b) He meets Dionysus.
(c) He goes to the Oracle.
(d) He goes to Sparta.
7. What became of Pheidippides?
(a) He stole money and ran away.
(b) He continues betting.
(c) He becomes pale and ugly.
(d) He leaves his father's house.
8. At the beginning of Acharnians, what does Dicaeopolis want to talk about after the assembly?
(a) The horrors of marriage.
(b) The horrors of the ongoing war against Sparta.
(c) The horrors of taxation.
(d) The horrors of Spartan food.
9. What does Trygaeus discover upon his arrival in heaven?
(a) The gods are too inebriated to receive him.
(b) The beetle is dead.
(c) Almost all the gods left.
(d) He needs an appointment to be received by the gods.
10. Who is being tried in the makeshift court Bdelycleon in his house at the end of The Wasps?
(a) A duck.
(b) Cleon.
(c) A dog.
(d) Philocleon.
11. Who does Amphitheus take hostage?
(a) A man.
(b) A bag of coal.
(c) A child.
(d) A woman.
12. What is the relationship between Strepsiades and Pheidippides?
(a) Two friends.
(b) Two merchant.
(c) Father and son.
(d) Two generals.
13. What does Cleon do after the contest of defending themselves to the Knights?
(a) He accuses everyone of treason for not supporting him.
(b) He thanks the merchant for the sausage.
(c) He thanks everyone for their support.
(d) He goes to the doctor as he can no longer speak.
14. After the charges of crimes, who wins the contest of defending themselves to the Knights?
(a) The backer.
(b) The merchant.
(c) The sausage merchant.
(d) Cleon.
15. What happens after Dicaeopolis finishes his speech to the crowd?
(a) Dicaeopolis is put to death.
(b) The ones that are convinced and the ones that are not fight.
(c) Dicaeopolis is freed.
(d) Dicaeopolis escapes.
Short Answer Questions
1. How is the chorus of old men dressed when they arrive at Bdelycleon's home?
2. What happens when Amphitheus meets with the Spartans?
3. What technique does Strepsiades use to justify the beatings he gave to his father?
4. How old is Dicaeopolis?
5. What happened to the Acharnians' farms before the play begins?
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