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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Clouds, Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why doesn't the Chorus want War at his parties?
(a) He gets drunk and violent.
(b) He eats all the food.
(c) He gets drunk and passes out.
(d) He offends the guests.

2. Who carries Nicharchus as the Thebian entourage leaves?
(a) Thebian.
(b) The Leader.
(c) The slaves.
(d) Ismenias.

3. How do Ismenias and the slaves pack Nicharus?
(a) In rags.
(b) In leaves.
(c) In shavings.
(d) In olives.

4. When Pheidippides gets to school, what does he do?
(a) He enters but doesn't learn anything.
(b) He refuses to go and returns home.
(c) He feels nervous and goes back the next day.
(d) He enters ready to learn.

5. Why does Pheidippides agree to go to learn rhetoric?
(a) He is half-asleep.
(b) He wants to help Strepsiades.
(c) He secretly loves philosophy.
(d) He is bored.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Dikaiopolis's wife watch the sacrifice from?

2. In Part 2 of The Acharnians, who is the Chorus composed of?

3. What barnyard animal do the Megarian's daughters pose as?

4. How does Strepsiades eventually get rid of the Second Creditor?

5. Who can Socrates just not teach in The Clouds?

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