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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 compare Agesilaus and Pompey in their treatment of the men who supported their rise to power?
(a) Agesilaus placed Lysander in an important province to honor his help whereas Pompey began making political connections so he could escape the influence of Sylla.
(b) Both Agesilaus and Pompey remained loyal to those who helped their careers.
(c) Both Agesilaus and Pompey betrayed those who helped them through their careers.
(d) Pompey remained loyal to Sylla even through the years Sylla had withdrawn his favor, but Agesilaus cast off Lysander with reproach after he rose to power on Lysander's misinterpretation of prophesy.

2. How did Plutarch describe Cleomenes' personality?
(a) Temperate and moderate in his pleasures, but impetuous and violent in his eagerness to pursue anything which he thought good and just.
(b) Ambivalent toward justice but fiery in his pursuit of battle.
(c) Temperate and moderate in leadership, but outgoing and social with friends.
(d) Violent and impetuous in personal relationships but focused and thoughtful in combat.

3. According to Plutarch's report, how did Phocion become general more than 45 times?
(a) He was elected to lead the armies by free election.
(b) He was willing to fight for any kingdom that desired his services.
(c) He sold his services to many land owners who needed protection.
(d) He subverted the commands of many generals.

4. According to Plutarch, who authored laws in Lacedaemonia that caused land that was once subject to inheritance within families to be taken into a few wealthy hands?
(a) Leotychides.
(b) Leonidas.
(c) Lysander.
(d) Epitadeus.

5. How was Pompey acquitted of embezzlement that Plutarch reported was accused against his father after he died?
(a) Pompey traced the thefts to a freed slave of his father's, named Alexander.
(b) Pompey proved his father was in Spain governing the Roman province when the money had disappeared.
(c) Pompey pledged his loyalty to Sylla.
(d) Pompey set us his own slave as having stolen the funds.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Plutarch claim Agis had imprisoned and hanged?

2. What did Plutarch report of Phocion's temperament?

3. How does Plutarch claim the birth order of Agis and Agesilaus affected their lives?

4. Who joined Agis to turn back the laws that placed inherited land under control of a few wealthy families, according to Plutarch?

5. With whom did Pompey make war that Plutarch reported eventually led to his death in Egypt?

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