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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the Knights, what do the slaves tell the audience?
(a) Everyone is afraid of Cleon.
(b) Everyone loves Cleon.
(c) Cleon is a Spartan.
(d) Cleon is being emancipated.

2. What are Eulipides and Pisthetaerus doing at the start of The Birds?
(a) Wandering in the woods.
(b) Going to the market.
(c) Traveling to Athens.
(d) Going to an oracle.

3. What does Trygaeus ask his servants and daughter not to do?
(a) Not to pass gas or use the bathroom for 3 days.
(b) Not to clean the house.
(c) Not to go to Sparta.
(d) Not to follow him on another beetle.

4. In Lysistrata, what are some of the women trying to do while guarding the building they took over?
(a) Sneak out to have sex.
(b) Go to Sparta.
(c) Kill their husband.
(d) Sneak out to have food.

5. What happens when Bdelycleon tries to sell the donkey himself?
(a) Philocleon tries to escape again.
(b) Philocleon tries to kill the donkey.
(c) Philocleon tries to hide under the donkey.
(d) Philocleon tries to sell a horse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What contest do Cleon and his possible replacement engage in?

2. How is Strepsiades expected to learn at the school in which he enrolls?

3. What does Trygaeus do after arriving in heaven?

4. Who are Cleon and his rival trying to convince of their worth?

5. After Trygaeus frees peace, who steals Trygaeus' beetle?

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