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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. As Lamachus gets ready for battle, Dikaiopolis does something else. What is it?
(a) Packs him food to take with him.
(b) Makes fun of him.
(c) Readies his horse.
(d) Helps him dress.

4. What does Dikaiopolis take as tax from the Thebian?
(a) A doorman.
(b) A plant.
(c) Jam.
(d) Eels.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Lamachus is faced with a surprise skirmish and needs peace, but Dikaiopolis has other plans. What are they?

3. The Bride's Slave makes a final plea for some peace from Dikaiopolis. What is her reason?

4. In Part 3 of The Acharnians, an informer denounces the Megarian girls as what?

5. The peace Dikaiopolis chooses has the scent of what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the Chorus of Archanians when Diakaiopolis finishes his defense?

2. Describe Dikaiopolis in the beginning of The Acharnians.

3. Present the argument that finally wins a few drops of peace from Dikaiopolis.

4. What do all the bugs in The Thinkery suggest?

5. How does Dikaiopolis react when Dercetes asks him to share some of the peace?

6. Describe the Megarans. How are they depicted?

7. What is Diakaiopolis's argument to the Chorus of Acharnians in his defense?

8. How does Dikaiopolis set up his shop?

9. How is Euripidies depicted in The Acharnians?

10. What is Dikaiopolis'S strategy in choosing the Peace?

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