The Clouds Quizzes

Think you’ve got your head wrapped around The Clouds? Put your knowledge to the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Which of Pheidippides's vices causes Strepsiades's money problems?


His gambling problem
His frequent visits to sex workers
His fondness for horse racing
His gluttony
Q. What does Strepsiades go to the Thinkery to learn?


Geometry
Astronomy
How to argue his way out of debt
Parenting
Q. What bad-news thing does Worse Argument do, according to Better Argument?


He makes fools of young Athenians
He encourages young people to be flabby
He encourages young people to be pale
All of the above
Q. What bad behavior does Pheidippides get into at the end of the play?


Beating his father
Murder
Drunk driving
Cussing
Q. What did the Clouds do that Strepsiades thinks was bad?


Rained on him when he forgot his umbrella
Failed to warn him away from Socrates
Sang too loudly
Replaced Zeus