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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Strepsiades doing to convince Pheidippides to stop betting?
(a) He is beating him up.
(b) He forbids him from betting.
(c) He stops loaning him money.
(d) He is having a heart to heart chat.

2. What became of Pheidippides?
(a) He continues betting.
(b) He leaves his father's house.
(c) He stole money and ran away.
(d) He becomes pale and ugly.

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

4. Who does Amphitheus take hostage?
(a) A woman.
(b) A bag of coal.
(c) A child.
(d) A man.

5. How is Cleon's rival able to win?
(a) By being a better sausage merchant.
(b) By being better at logic than Cleon.
(c) By running faster.
(d) By being more shameless.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Demosthenes and Nicias doing the night of the play?

2. What are Sosias and Xanthias doing at the start of The Wasps?

3. What technique does Strepsiades use to justify the beatings he gave to his father?

4. How successful is Dicaeopolis' argument to the crowd?

5. What happened to the Acharnians' farms before the play begins?

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