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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Comparison of Tiberius and Caius Gracchus with Agis and Cleomenes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Plutarch claim Agis and Cleomenes incurred the hatred of the rich and powerful?
(a) By inciting the working class to take their property.
(b) By taxing them to support homeless soldiers.
(c) By taking their laborers from them to fight in wars.
(d) By being desirous to restore the noble and just form of government.

2. What does Plutarch claim caused Caesar and Pompey to become rivals for power?
(a) Pompey's defeat to Sertorius in Spain.
(b) Crassus' death.
(c) The rivalry between Pompey's father and Caesar's family.
(d) Pompey's alliance with Crassus.

3. After his return from Spain, with whom does Plutarch claim Caesar took power over Rome in the Triumvirate?
(a) Brutus and Cassius.
(b) Antony and Octavius.
(c) Crassus and Pompey.
(d) Sylla and Nero.

4. According to Plutarch, when did Phocion rise to power in Athens?
(a) After the death of Eumenes.
(b) After Alexander had decided to invade Persia.
(c) As the ship of state in Athens was sinking.
(d) As Greece was recovering from war with the Macedonians.

5. With whom did Pompey ally himself to overcome the reputation of his father, and who did Plutarch report they oppose in a civil conflict for power over Rome?
(a) Pompey allied himself with a very popular general named Sylla and they united their armies to oppose the tyrant, Carbo.
(b) Pompey allied himself with Caesar in an attempt to overthrow Sylla.
(c) Pompey allied himself with Metellus to overthrow Sertorius' rebellions in Spain.
(d) Pompey allied himself with Crassus to overthrow Caesar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What political difference does Plutarch recognize between "The Spartans"?

2. Who invaded Spartan provinces while Cleomenes was making reforms in Spartan government, according to Plutarch?

3. What victory of Phocion over the Macedonians did Plutarch report as being that which earned the admiration of Philip, King of Macedon?

4. What does Plutarch identify as the difference in the characters between "The Roman Brothers" and "The Spartans"?

5. To whose death did Plutarch compare the death of Phocion?

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