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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 backer.
(b) A god.
(c) A sausage vendor.
(d) A general.
2. What does the teacher eventually decide about Strepsiades?
(a) Strepsiades has learned everything he could.
(b) Strepsiades can become the master.
(c) Strepsiades is too fat.
(d) Strepsiades cannot be taught.
3. At the beginning of The Knights, what are Demosthenes and Nicias complaining about?
(a) The government.
(b) The high taxes.
(c) The war with Sparta.
(d) A beating they received from their master.
4. What happens when Bdelycleon tries to sell the donkey himself?
(a) Philocleon tries to escape again.
(b) Philocleon tries to kill the donkey.
(c) Philocleon tries to hide under the donkey.
(d) Philocleon tries to sell a horse.
5. How does Bdelycleon propose to settle the dispute between him and the Wasps concerning his father?
(a) To toss a coin.
(b) To write a play.
(c) To allow his father back in court.
(d) To have a debate.
6. What is Bdelycleon's father's affliction?
(a) He loves the courts.
(b) He loves women.
(c) He loves drinking.
(d) He loves women.
7. Who are the real gods according to the teacher at the think-shop?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Birds.
(c) Women shaped clouds.
(d) Cats.
8. Who enrolls in the think-shop in Pheidippides' stead?
(a) A friend.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father.
(d) His brother.
9. Who do Demosthenes and Nicias think is the cause of their trouble?
(a) Athena.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Cleon.
(d) Their master.
10. When Dicaeopolis fears the mob, who does Dicaeopolis go to see for help?
(a) Euripides.
(b) Aeschylus.
(c) Seneca.
(d) The Persian king.
11. What does Trygaeus discover upon his arrival in heaven?
(a) He needs an appointment to be received by the gods.
(b) Almost all the gods left.
(c) The beetle is dead.
(d) The gods are too inebriated to receive him.
12. What god(s) does Trygeaeus find willingly remain in heaven?
(a) Zeus.
(b) The god of war and Hermes.
(c) The goddess of poverty.
(d) The god of wealth.
13. When Cleon and the sausage merchant are off stage, who is praised in the first part of the speech by the chorus?
(a) Great men of the past.
(b) Great men of the future.
(c) Athens' merchant.
(d) Cleon.
14. Based on the debate, what does Philocleon like about the court?
(a) Being able to rest in the court and being paid.
(b) Hearing the arguments, being paid and having power over the defendant.
(c) Hearing the arguments and having power over the judge.
(d) Having power of the defendant and sleeping in the court.
15. 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.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who does the teacher ask for to replace Strepsiades?
2. What is the reaction of the one that is supposed to replace Cleon?
3. After Trygaeus frees peace, who steals Trygaeus' beetle?
4. In the Knights, what do the slaves tell the audience?
5. In the Knights, what do the slaves want to do that has been forbidden?
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