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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book IV - Sicily (Chapters XXI-XXIV).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is discounted as a good general?
(a) Pericles.
(b) Nicias.
(c) Alcibiades.
(d) Polemides.

2. Who sends an official message to Polemides regarding the invasion?
(a) Alcibiades.
(b) Lion.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Euryptolemus.

3. What is the name of the gathering of the Athenian officials?
(a) Congress.
(b) Assembly.
(c) Senate.
(d) Conflagration.

4. The old comrade offers to help which of the following men to escape?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Lysander.
(c) Polemides.
(d) Alcibiades.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the man's sister?

2. What was another name for the Peloponnesian War?

3. Polemides discusses his new vocation as a _____.

4. When Polemides finds his cousin, he discovers a group of people involves in which of the following?

5. Polemides relates the events of the _______.

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