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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the teacher ask for to replace Strepsiades?
(a) Pheidippides.
(b) Plato.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Socrates.

2. What does Dicaeopolis agree to?
(a) To enlist in Athens' army.
(b) To talk to the assembly to help lower taxes.
(c) To go back to Sparta.
(d) To put his head on the chopping block while he makes his case to the crowd.

3. What does Trygaeus ask his servants and daughter not to do?
(a) Not to clean the house.
(b) Not to pass gas or use the bathroom for 3 days.
(c) Not to follow him on another beetle.
(d) Not to go to Sparta.

4. What does Pheidippides predict Strepsiades will do after Pheidippides finishes his training at Socrates' School?
(a) Strepsiades will soon create more debt.
(b) Strepsiades will soon create his own school.
(c) Strepsiades will soon die.
(d) Strepsiades will soon be out of debt.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Clouds, where does Socrates go when he needs to think?

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 one of the gods who remained in heaven plan on doing to the Greek cities?

4. What happens when Amphitheus meets with the Spartans?

5. Upon his arrival at the think-shop, how is Strepsiades greeted?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Bdelycleon trick the wasps into a debate?

2. Why is Strepsiades beating his son, Pheidippides, in The Clouds?

3. In Peace, why do you think the god of war needs a new pestle?

4. What are the two slaves doing at the start of the Peace?

5. In Peace, what prevented peace form coming back according to Trygaeus and Hermes?

6. Who replaces Strepsiades at the school in The Clouds?

7. How is Socrates' school portrayed in The Clouds?

8. Why is Strepsiades expelled shortly after his enrollment at the school in The Clouds?

9. What reversal of fortune does Philocleon experience at the end of The Wasps?

10. What is Dicaeopolis waiting for at the beginning of Acharnians and why?

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