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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Clouds, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose monologue opens The Clouds?
(a) Strepsiades.
(b) Pheidippides.
(c) Chaerephon.
(d) Socrates.

2. How does Dikaiopolis like the first peace?
(a) He likes it, but tries another.
(b) He tastes it, but doesn't like it.
(c) He doesn't even try it.
(d) He loves it.

3. Lamachus is faced with a surprise skirmish and needs peace, but Dikaiopolis has other plans. What are they?
(a) Clean up the mess from his cooking.
(b) Dinner with the Priest of Dionysus.
(c) He wants to take a nap.
(d) To eat the dinner he prepared earlier.

4. What is Dikaiopolis doing when he sees Lamachus return from battle?
(a) Playing music on the lute.
(b) Dancing with his daughters.
(c) Singing bawdy songs.
(d) Drinking with dancing girls.

5. Where does Dikaiopolis's wife watch the sacrifice from?
(a) A window.
(b) The yard.
(c) The roof.
(d) The altar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dikaiopolis give the Megarian for the girls?

2. How much does the first Ambassador make in a day?

3. What happens after Dikaiopolis finishes his defense?

4. When Pheidippides gets to school, what does he do?

5. What does the second ambassador bring as a gift during the assembly?

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