1. What does Plutarch report to be the condition of Lacedaemonia when Agis and his partner began their reign?
(a) It was beaten down by wars with citizens who had lost hope of recovery.
(b) It was taken by avarice, a base spirit, luxury, effeminacy and had fallen from her former virtue and repute.
(c) Lacedaemonia had risen to become the most powerful of Spartan cities.
(d) Lacedaemonia had become little more than a crossroad for commerce to more industrious cities.

2. How does Plutarch claim that Demosthenes became the best orator of his time?
(a) He had a natural flare that came naturally.
(b) By practicing long hours to develop a dramatic, persuasive style.
(c) He was an avid reader and often quoted from the ancient masters.
(d) He was trained in rhetorical arts by Aristotle.

3. Which one of the four being compared does Plutarch report had no great action worthy of a commander?
(a) Tiberius.
(b) Cleomenes.
(c) Caius.
(d) Agis.

4. What did Plutarch report to be the difference between how the island allies of Athens treated other arriving Athenian admirals compared to their reception of Phocion?
(a) Other admirals were treated as an enemy suspect, but Phocion was greeted with private boats and barges with streamers and garlands.
(b) Other admirals were treated with ambivalence, but they regarded Phocion with tremendous fear.
(c) Other admirals were greeted with private boats and barges with streamers and garlands, but Phocion was treated as an enemy suspect.
(d) Islands were opened very freely to other admirals, but they feared Phocion's plundering ways.

5. How did the master of Rome prior to Caesar's reign make himself an enemy to Caesar, according to Plutarch?
(a) Cassius conspired with Brutus to remove Caesar from contention for power.
(b) Sylla wanted Caesar to put his wife away because her father, Cinna, was the ruler of Rome priort to Sylla.
(c) Cato warned the Senate of the ambitions of Caesar.
(d) Crassus allied himself with Pompey in the Roman Senate to force Caesar into a triumvirate.