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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the teacher eventually decide about Strepsiades?
(a) Strepsiades has learned everything he could.
(b) Strepsiades can become the master.
(c) Strepsiades is too fat.
(d) Strepsiades cannot be taught.

2. Who is specifically targeted in Bdelycleon's counter-argument?
(a) Nobody is targeted.
(b) Siseron.
(c) Cleon.
(d) The government as a whole.

3. In the Knights, what do the slaves want to do that has been forbidden?
(a) Kill Cleon.
(b) Go to Sparta.
(c) Go see an Oracle.
(d) Go back to their master.

4. Who does the oracle predict will replace Cleon?
(a) A backer.
(b) A sausage vendor.
(c) A general.
(d) A god.

5. When Dicaeopolis fears the mob, who does Dicaeopolis go to see for help?
(a) Euripides.
(b) Aeschylus.
(c) Seneca.
(d) The Persian king.

Short Answer Questions

1. After his father's attempts to escape, what does Bdelycleon fear?

2. How does Bdelycleon propose to settle the dispute between him and the Wasps concerning his father?

3. What does Dicaeopolis do after the closing of the assembly?

4. What is the chorus of old men doing after they arrive at Bdelycleon's home?

5. Why is Pheidippides refusing to enroll?

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