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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction: The Apocolocyntosis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was everyone drinking at the location where the old woman took the students?
(a) Tea.
(b) Sea water.
(c) Aphrodisiacs.
(d) Lemonade.

2. Who is Circe's maid?
(a) She doesn't have one.
(b) Proselenus.
(c) Chrysis.
(d) Oenothea.

3. Who died a year before the "The Apocolocyntosis" was written?
(a) Augustus.
(b) Caesar.
(c) Claudius.
(d) Nero.

4. Who develops a plan to use in order to enter the city of Croton?
(a) Encolpius.
(b) Giton.
(c) Eumolpus.
(d) Ascyltus.

5. Who wants to be Giton's teacher and guardian in exchange for a sexual relationship?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Euripides.
(c) Eumolpus.
(d) Ascyltus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which instructor developed proper language skills in his students?

2. To where was the author of "The Apocolocyntosis" exiled?

3. Why are there no children in Croton?

4. Who especially likes the prospects the town has to offer to the companions?

5. Who tries to commit suicide by hanging?

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