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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Approximately how many pages of text does each chapter cover in "A History of My Times"?
(a) One hundred.
(b) Seventy five.
(c) Twenty five.
(d) Fifty.

2. What are the ships that Alcibiades led called?
(a) Triremes.
(b) Trawlers.
(c) Force.
(d) Armada.

3. 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.

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

5. Whom did Thibron enlist to help him with the actions that eventually caused his exile?
(a) Island natives.
(b) His own men.
(c) Another city's army.
(d) The enemy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the reeds in the story?

2. What were trophies often made out of?

3. In Book 2, Chapter 2, how long is the story about a specific plan to raise money in the book?

4. How many military leaders are discussed in the first chapter?

5. What effect did the circumstances of a particular battle have on the awarding of trophies?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the military leaders cooperate with each other on the issue of funding?

2. What are the intentions of the author and the publisher in presenting "A History of My Times"?

3. What hardships did the sailors encounter when they were not at war?

4. Why was Xenophon's loyalty questioned when he served in the Athenian military?

5. How was Mania's son-in-law convinced to betray her?

6. What happened to Thibron after he returned to Sparta and why?

7. What was the politician's objection to the idea of plundering a town for money?

8. Why are there maps included in the back of the book, "A History of My Times"?

9. What were the funds that were raised used for during a war?

10. What did the politician do to raise the money for the soldiers and what type of solution did that provide?

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