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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Nicarchus denounce the Thebian?
(a) His lampwicks may set fire to the Docks.
(b) His doormats will fall apart.
(c) His food will poison the people.
(d) He is actually a spy.

2. What does Dikaiopolis want to do before his trial?
(a) Change clothes.
(b) Hire an attorney.
(c) Acquire a bribe.
(d) Prepare a statement.

3. Aristophanes describes all the students in The Clouds as what?
(a) Tan.
(b) Active.
(c) Fat.
(d) Thin.

4. 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) He wants to take a nap.
(c) To eat the dinner he prepared earlier.
(d) Dinner with the Priest of Dionysus.

5. How does The Chorus of Acharnians feel about Dikaiopolis after all of his trading?
(a) The Chorus of Acharnians praises Dikaiopolis.
(b) The Chorus of Acharnians are angry with Dikaiopolis.
(c) The Chorus of Acharnians don't say how they feel.
(d) The Chorus of Acharnians are indifferent to Dikaiopolis.

6. According to the Chorus of Acharnians, who can cure all strife?
(a) Aphrodite.
(b) The Graces.
(c) Young Eros.
(d) Reconciliation.

7. How many samples of peace does Dikaioplois have to choose from?
(a) Four.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

8. In the end of The Acharnians, Dikaiopolis claims he is keen to do what?
(a) Continue selling in his market.
(b) Share his peace.
(c) Go to bed.
(d) Cook for everyone else.

9. The Acharnians opens with a soliloquy by which character?
(a) The Crier.
(b) Dikaiopolis.
(c) Amphitheus.
(d) The Acharnians.

10. Dercetes comes to Dikaiopolis's home, begging for what?
(a) Peace.
(b) Rabbit.
(c) Thrush.
(d) Lamp wicks.

11. What does Socrates try to teach Strepsiades?
(a) Chemistry, music, and politics.
(b) Algebra, logic, and religion.
(c) Physics, dance, and culture.
(d) Geometry, language, and gender.

12. Who does The Chorus of Clouds tell Strepsiades to send to the school in his stead?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Cleon.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Pheidippdes.

13. What does Dikaiopolis do after he makes peace?
(a) Talks to the Acharnians about their differences in opinion.
(b) Pledges to share the peace wine with everyone.
(c) Takes the wine into his house to celebrate.
(d) Offers some wine to Amphitheus.

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

15. In Part 3 of The Acharnians, an informer denounces the Megarian girls as what?
(a) Spartians.
(b) Sacrifices.
(c) Girls, not pigs.
(d) Contraband.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Dikaiopolis enlist to help him before the trial?

2. How does Dikaiopolis like the first peace?

3. How does Dikaiopolis overpower Nicarchus?

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

5. When the crier re-enters in Part 4 of The Acharnians to announce the trumpet signal to drink wine, what is Dikaiopolis doing?

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