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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Pheidippides predict Strepsiades will do after Pheidippides finishes his training at Socrates' School?
(a) Strepsiades will soon die.
(b) Strepsiades will soon create more debt.
(c) Strepsiades will soon be out of debt.
(d) Strepsiades will soon create his own school.

3. What is Pheidippides' vice as introduced in the beginning of The Clouds?
(a) Cards.
(b) Women.
(c) Drug.
(d) Horse betting.

4. At the beginning of Acharnians, what does Dicaeopolis want to talk about after the assembly?
(a) The horrors of the ongoing war against Sparta.
(b) The horrors of Spartan food.
(c) The horrors of taxation.
(d) The horrors of marriage.

5. What happened to the Acharnians' farms before the play begins?
(a) They were sold to Sparta.
(b) They were built on loose soil.
(c) They had good crops.
(d) They were burned down by Spartans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Amphitheus take hostage?

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

3. What does Dicaeopolis agree to?

4. At the think-shop, who is Strepsiades presented to after his enrollment?

5. Whose money is Pheidippides betting with at the beginning of The Clouds?

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