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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book IX - Tides of War (Chapters XLIII-XLVI).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When in the pavilions of the Persians, the narrator was affected by which strong emotion?
(a) Relief.
(b) Sorrow.
(c) Panic.
(d) Serenity.

2. What does Lysander refer to as a "solitary god?"
(a) Victory.
(b) Necessity.
(c) Cunning.
(d) Honor.

3. The defect causes people to see Alcibiades as being more ____.
(a) Human.
(b) Vulnerable.
(c) Pathetic.
(d) Harmless.

4. Polemides discusses his new vocation as a _____.
(a) Sailor.
(b) Soldier.
(c) General.
(d) Farmer.

5. One afternoon, the grandfather says that memory is a(n) ____ goddess.
(a) Unforgiving.
(b) Queer.
(c) Fickle.
(d) Elusive.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did it take the narrator to reach Lacedaemon?

2. What was the name of the "pretty park area?"

3. Who begins to keep a chronicle of the war?

4. How many wives did Jason have?

5. What is a "hetairai"?

(see the answer key)

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