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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What do the orators preceding Dicaeopolis speak of?
(a) Trivial things.
(b) Taxes.
(c) Internal policies.
(d) The war.
2. What are the judges entitled to according to Bdelycleon?
(a) A small percentage of the belongings of those condemned.
(b) A small percentage of the money politicians extort using the courts.
(c) A small percentage of the court fees.
(d) A small percentage of the taxes.
3. What does Dicaeopolis wait for at the beginning of Acharnians?
(a) Athens to surrender to Sparta.
(b) Sparta to surrender to Athens.
(c) His wife to come back from the Oracle.
(d) The assembly to begin.
4. Who do Demosthenes and Nicias think is the cause of their trouble?
(a) Their master.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Cleon.
(d) Athena.
5. 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 being more shameless.
(d) By running faster.
6. Why does Dicaeopolis go to see the playwright?
(a) To have him write a speech.
(b) To borrow the beggar costume.
(c) To go hunting with him.
(d) To help him write a play.
7. What is Cleon's rival, the sausage merchant's real name?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Agoracritus.
(c) Dionysus.
(d) Acokotus.
8. In Peace, what are the gods feelings about the war in Greece?
(a) Envious.
(b) Like it.
(c) Tired of it.
(d) Resigned.
9. What type of contest is Dicaeopolis invited to participate in?
(a) Fighting.
(b) Drinking.
(c) Chess.
(d) Darts.
10. What does Trygaeus discover upon his arrival in heaven?
(a) Almost all the gods left.
(b) He needs an appointment to be received by the gods.
(c) The beetle is dead.
(d) The gods are too inebriated to receive him.
11. In the Knights, what do the slaves tell the audience?
(a) Everyone loves Cleon.
(b) Everyone is afraid of Cleon.
(c) Cleon is a Spartan.
(d) Cleon is being emancipated.
12. What are Demosthenes and Nicias doing the night of the play?
(a) Talking military tactics.
(b) They are sleeping.
(c) Getting drunk and stealing wine.
(d) Playing cards.
13. What does Trygaeus ask his servants and daughter not to do?
(a) Not to pass gas or use the bathroom for 3 days.
(b) Not to clean the house.
(c) Not to follow him on another beetle.
(d) Not to go to Sparta.
14. What is Bdelycleon's father's affliction?
(a) He loves women.
(b) He loves women.
(c) He loves the courts.
(d) He loves drinking.
15. What happened to the Acharnians' farms before the play begins?
(a) They were burned down by Spartans.
(b) They were sold to Sparta.
(c) They were built on loose soil.
(d) They had good crops.
Short Answer Questions
1. How is Strepsiades expected to learn at the school in which he enrolls?
2. Who does Amphitheus take hostage?
3. What happens to Amphitheus?
4. In the Clouds, where does Socrates go when he needs to think?
5. Who is specifically targeted in Bdelycleon's counter-argument?
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