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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What technique does Strepsiades use to justify the beatings he gave to his father?
(a) Non-linear logic.
(b) Cartesian logic.
(c) Twisted logic.
(d) Sound logic.

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) Great men of the future.
(c) Great men of the past.
(d) Cleon.

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

5. What does one of the gods who remained in heaven plan on doing to the Greek cities?
(a) To destroy them with mortar.
(b) To unleash the Titans on the Greek cities.
(c) To create a tsunami.
(d) To bring peace to the land.

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

7. What must Athenians and Trygaeus' servants prepare for when Trygaeus returns?
(a) A festival wedding.
(b) A funeral.
(c) The invasion of Sparta.
(d) A feast to celebrate war.

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

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

10. How is the chorus of old men dressed when they arrive at Bdelycleon's home?
(a) As donkeys.
(b) As wasps.
(c) As birds.
(d) As cats.

11. After realizing he helped create a monster, what does Strepsiades do at the end of The Clouds?
(a) Burns the school down.
(b) Asks his son to leave the house.
(c) Burns his home down.
(d) Enrolls himself in the school again.

12. In the Wasps, how does Philocleon try to escape the house Bdelycleon confined him in?
(a) Though the chimney.
(b) Through the back door.
(c) Through the window.
(d) Through the basement.

13. Why is Pheidippides refusing to enroll?
(a) Everyone that enrolls abandons betting.
(b) Everyone that enrolls is pale and ugly.
(c) Everyone that enrolls loses money.
(d) Everyone that enrolls dies.

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

15. What are Sosias and Xanthias doing at the start of The Wasps?
(a) Keeping watch over their master Bdelycleon's house.
(b) Writing a play.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Playing cards.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the oracle predict will replace Cleon?

2. What does Dicaeopolis wait for at the beginning of Acharnians?

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

4. What does Trygaeus discover upon his arrival in heaven?

5. What happens to Amphitheus?

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