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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dicaeopolis do after the closing of the assembly?
(a) He meets a man named Amphitheus.
(b) He goes to Sparta.
(c) He meets Dionysus.
(d) He goes to the Oracle.

2. What does Dicaeopolis agree to?
(a) To talk to the assembly to help lower taxes.
(b) To go back to Sparta.
(c) To put his head on the chopping block while he makes his case to the crowd.
(d) To enlist in Athens' army.

3. When Cleon and the sausage merchant are off stage, who is praised in the first part of the speech by the chorus?
(a) Athens' merchant.
(b) Cleon.
(c) Great men of the future.
(d) Great men of the past.

4. What proposal does Amphitheus make to Dicaeopolis?
(a) To help him flee to Sparta.
(b) To help him find a wife.
(c) To help him defeat Sparta.
(d) To broker a private peace deal between Athens and Sparta.

5. Why does Dicaeopolis go to see the playwright?
(a) To go hunting with him.
(b) To have him write a speech.
(c) To help him write a play.
(d) To borrow the beggar costume.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Knights, what do the slaves tell the audience?

2. What do Demosthenes and Nicas accuse their fellow slave, Paphlagon, of doing?

3. How old is Dicaeopolis?

4. After the charges of crimes, who wins the contest of defending themselves to the Knights?

5. In the Knights, what do the slaves want to do that has been forbidden?

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