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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How often were trophies made in ancient Greece?
(a) Once every other battle.
(b) After most battles.
(c) After every battle.
(d) Only when time allowed.

2. How long has the war been waging when the second chapter begins?
(a) Twenty five years.
(b) Thirty years.
(c) Forty years.
(d) Thirty five years.

3. Which biographer included Xenophon in his works?
(a) Plutarch.
(b) Laertius.
(c) Demetrius of Magnesia.
(d) Hermippus of Smyrna.

4. Which publishing company is used to present the summary for "A History of My Times"?
(a) Penguin Classics.
(b) Routledge.
(c) John Hopkins University.
(d) Oxford World Classics.

5. Where were sailors able to live fairly well?
(a) Lemnus.
(b) Imbros.
(c) Thasos.
(d) Chios.

6. What event did Mania join her mercenaries for?
(a) Appointing a new commander.
(b) Battering down an enemy's walls.
(c) Planning strategies for the next attack.
(d) Giving out trophies after a victory.

7. What are the main events of the first chapter focused on?
(a) Military battles.
(b) Military language.
(c) Military procedures.
(d) Military uniforms.

8. What aspect of fund raising does Xenophon choose to focus on in the second chapter?
(a) Stories, amounts, and solutions.
(b) Amounts and solutions.
(c) Stories and solutions.
(d) Stories and amounts.

9. What held the men that Xenophon led in the military together?
(a) The loyalty they had for him and each other.
(b) The loyalty they had for the city.
(c) The loyalty they had for him and the city.
(d) The loyalty that they had for each other.

10. In what division of the military did Xenophon serve?
(a) The infantry and the cavalry.
(b) The infantry.
(c) Neither the infantry nor the cavalry.
(d) The cavalry.

11. How many military leaders are discussed in the first chapter?
(a) None.
(b) A few.
(c) Several.
(d) Only one.

12. Mania shares her name with a Greek mythological personification. What has been named after this personification?
(a) Characteristics of good fortune.
(b) A war ship.
(c) Symptoms of mental illness.
(d) A fish.

13. What happened to the reeds in the story?
(a) They disappeared.
(b) They were cut in half.
(c) They were given to the soldiers.
(d) They multiplied.

14. What is the largest number of ships discussed in the battles of the first chapter?
(a) Seventy.
(b) Ninety.
(c) One hundred.
(d) Eighty.

15. Which one of the following was Cyrus's brother?
(a) Artaxerxes.
(b) Ariaeus.
(c) Clearchus.
(d) Tissaphernes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What audience is the book, "A History of My Times", trying to reach?

2. How many ships were made available to Cyrus by his Spartan ally?

3. How was Thibron's exile first considered?

4. What was the reason for Thibron's exile?

5. How were a majority of people in the military compensated in the classical era?

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