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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II - The Long Walls (Chapters VI-IX).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who assassinated Alcibiades?
(a) Polemides.
(b) Nicolaus.
(c) Plato.
(d) Jason.

2. The narrator lost his child to which disease?
(a) Bubonic Plague.
(b) Typhus.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Consumption.

3. The plan to protect the city included building ___ walls around the perimeter.
(a) Fortified.
(b) Stone.
(c) Movable.
(d) Wooden.

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

5. How many children did Jason bury?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Eleven.
(d) Eight.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was the child when he died?

2. Who returns to the city after a fall?

3. The man found that the city had been decimated by which disease?

4. What is the name of Polemides' cousin?

5. The grandfather served at all but which of the following?

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