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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Frogs.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Dionysus in route to at the beginning of The Frogs?
(a) To see Hades.
(b) To see Zeus.
(c) His half-brother, Heracles.
(d) The oracle.

2. Who are the real gods according to the teacher at the think-shop?
(a) Cats.
(b) Birds.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Women shaped clouds.

3. Why is Pheidippides refusing to enroll?
(a) Everyone that enrolls dies.
(b) Everyone that enrolls abandons betting.
(c) Everyone that enrolls loses money.
(d) Everyone that enrolls is pale and ugly.

4. How is the disagreement between Euripides and his opponent settled?
(a) Dionysus asks each of them to dance.
(b) Dionysus asks each of them to give advice on how to help Athens.
(c) Dionysus asks each of them to try seducing a woman.
(d) Dionysus asks each of them to create a new poem.

5. What god is caught wandering on earth at the end of The Birds?
(a) Iris.
(b) Athena.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Poseidon.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Eulipides and Pisthetaerus think the gods can be supplanted?

2. What are the fastest ways to go to Hades according to the text?

3. In the Clouds, where does Socrates go when he needs to think?

4. What is Strepsiades doing to convince Pheidippides to stop betting?

5. What city do Eulipides and Pisthetaerus want to leave at the beginning of Birds?

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