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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What prevented peace from being released sooner according to Trygaeus and Hermes?
(a) The beetle.
(b) War profiteering.
(c) The government.
(d) Generals.

2. Who is Demosthenes and Nicias' master?
(a) Amos.
(b) Demos.
(c) Scemos.
(d) Lemos.

3. What does Dicaeopolis do after the closing of the assembly?
(a) He goes to the Oracle.
(b) He goes to Sparta.
(c) He meets Dionysus.
(d) He meets a man named Amphitheus.

4. How is Cleon's rival able to win?
(a) By being better at logic than Cleon.
(b) By running faster.
(c) By being a better sausage merchant.
(d) By being more shameless.

5. When Dicaeopolis fears the mob, who does Dicaeopolis go to see for help?
(a) Euripides.
(b) Aeschylus.
(c) Seneca.
(d) The Persian king.

6. Who do Demosthenes and Nicias think is the cause of their trouble?
(a) Their master.
(b) Cleon.
(c) Athena.
(d) Zeus.

7. What does Cleon do after the contest of defending themselves to the Knights?
(a) He goes to the doctor as he can no longer speak.
(b) He thanks everyone for their support.
(c) He accuses everyone of treason for not supporting him.
(d) He thanks the merchant for the sausage.

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 taxation.
(c) The horrors of the ongoing war against Sparta.
(d) The horrors of Spartan food.

9. Who does the oracle predict will replace Cleon?
(a) A god.
(b) A sausage vendor.
(c) A general.
(d) A backer.

10. Whose money is Pheidippides betting with at the beginning of The Clouds?
(a) His sister's money.
(b) His own.
(c) Money from a loan.
(d) His father, Strepsiades' money.

11. How old is Dicaeopolis?
(a) He is a young boy.
(b) He is a young man.
(c) He is a middle aged man.
(d) He is an old man.

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

13. What is Bdelycleon's father's affliction?
(a) He loves the courts.
(b) He loves women.
(c) He loves drinking.
(d) He loves women.

14. 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.

15. What is Cleon's rival, the sausage merchant's real name?
(a) Dionysus.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Acokotus.
(d) Agoracritus.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Cleon and the sausage merchant are off stage, who is praised in the first part of the speech by the chorus?

2. Based on the debate, what does Philocleon like about the court?

3. What technique does Strepsiades use to justify the beatings he gave to his father?

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

5. What does the teacher eventually decide about Strepsiades?

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