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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Peace, what are the gods feelings about the war in Greece?
(a) Resigned.
(b) Envious.
(c) Like it.
(d) Tired of it.

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

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

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

5. What are Bdelycleon and his father, Philocleon's, views on Cleon?
(a) Bdelycleon hates Cleon and Philocleon loves Cleon.
(b) They both hate Cleon.
(c) Bdelycleon loves Cleon and Philocleon hates Cleon.
(d) They both love Cleon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dicaeopolis do after the meeting with the Spartans?

2. How is the chorus of old men dressed when they arrive at Bdelycleon's home?

3. What is Bdelycleon's father's affliction?

4. When Dicaeopolis fears the mob, who does Dicaeopolis go to see for help?

5. In the Wasps, how does Philocleon try to escape the house Bdelycleon confined him in?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Peace, what prevented peace form coming back according to Trygaeus and Hermes?

2. What are the two slaves doing at the start of the Peace?

3. What does Demos and the sausage merchant think of the future at the end of The Knights?

4. Who replaces Strepsiades at the school in The Clouds?

5. Why does Dicaeopolis risk his life for his anti-war cause?

6. In Peace, why do you think Trygaeus thought peace was dead?

7. How does Bdelycleon trick the wasps into a debate?

8. How does Aristophanes portray the Athenian political system in The Knights?

9. In The Wasps, what argument does Bdelycleon make against the judicial system?

10. In Peace, why do you think the god of war needs a new pestle?

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