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The Clouds is a 423 BCE play by Aristophanes, originally written in ancient Greek. At the time, professional intellectuals called sophists taught customers rhetorical techniques to use in public speaking, along with providing instruction in other subjects. In the play, Aristophanes satirizes sophists as teaching students how to be persuasive without regard for what is morally good, as seen when the character .

Which choice most effectively uses a quotation from a translation of The Clouds to illustrate the claim?

Strepsiades encourages his son to learn to be a sophist, saying, "Reform your habits as quickly as possible, and go and learn what I advise."

Socrates, a sophist, says that he studies astronomy while in a basket hanging a few feet off the ground because "I should not have rightly discovered things celestial if I had not suspended the intellect, and mixed the thought in a subtle form with its kindred air."

Socrates, a sophist, says of a new customer, "I have not seen any man so boorish, nor so impracticable, nor so stupid, nor so forgetful; who, while learning some little petty quibbles, forgets them before he has learned them."

Strepsiades hires a sophist to teach his son and says to the sophist, "But see that he learns those two [styles of argument]; the better, whatever it may be; and the worse, which, by maintaining what is unjust, overturns the better. If not both, at any rate the unjust one by all means."