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

2. What has changed about Pheidippides's appearance since he entered The Thinkery?
(a) He has become very tan.
(b) He has become slightly fatter.
(c) He has become much more pale.
(d) He has grown slightly taller.

3. The Chorus of The Clouds assures Strepsiades that although his studies may be bizarre, he will come into good fortune. After that, they take a break to make an interjection glorifying a particular playwright. Who do they praise and defend?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Euripides.
(c) Aeschylus.
(d) Aristophanes.

4. According to Dikaiopolis, who or what started the war?
(a) A few drunk Athenian men kidnapped a woman.
(b) The Spartians cutting down Athenian vines.
(c) Pericles sent out thunder and lightning.
(d) A difference in religion with the Megarians.

5. How does Socrates appear for the first time in The Clouds?
(a) From the audience, like a level-headed philosopher.
(b) From the trap door, like a sneak.
(c) Stage right, like an actor.
(d) Airborne, like a god in tradegy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dikaiopolis forget before returning to his trial?

2. A slave is sent to buy goods from Dikaiopolis on behalf of whom?

3. What will The Chorus of Clouds do for the theatre judges for a favorable outcome?

4. Socrates checks on a not-sleeping Strepsiades by doing what?

5. Why does Nicarchus denounce the Thebian?

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