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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Phocion.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 greeted with private boats and barges with streamers and garlands, but Phocion was treated as an enemy suspect.
(b) Islands were opened very freely to other admirals, but they feared Phocion's plundering ways.
(c) Other admirals were treated with ambivalence, but they regarded Phocion with tremendous fear.
(d) Other admirals were treated as an enemy suspect, but Phocion was greeted with private boats and barges with streamers and garlands.

2. What did Plutarch report of Phocion's temperament?
(a) "...That public bodies are most insulting and contumelious to a good man,...."
(b) "He that remonstrates with them (public bodies) on their errors is presumed to be insulting over their misfortunes...."
(c) "For assuredly there is difference enough among virtues of the same denomination as between the bravery of Alcibiades and that of Eapmindondas,..."
(d) "...that scarcely was he ever seen by any Athenian either laughing, or in tears."

3. How far to the East did Plutarch claim Alexander spread his empire?
(a) Babylon.
(b) India.
(c) Persia.
(d) Turkey.

4. According to Plutarch, how did Caesar begin his rise to power over Rome?
(a) By using his military victories to gain political support from the population.
(b) By forming political alliances in the Senate.
(c) By using his new learned rhetorical skills to bring charges of corruption against high-ranking officials in Sylla's administration.
(d) By bringing wealth back to Rome after military victories and sharing it among the plebes.

5. What victory of Phocion over the Macedonians did Plutarch report as being that which earned the admiration of Philip, King of Macedon?
(a) The battle of Persia.
(b) The battle of Chaeronaea.
(c) The battle for Euboea.
(d) The battle of Delphi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event led Philip to commission Aristotle to teach Alexander, according to Plutarch?

2. What is the first similarity that Plutarch recognized between Sertorius and Eumenes?

3. What preceded Caesar's election by the Senate to Dictator, according to Plutarch?

4. What was a political hurdle that Plutarch claimed Pompey had to overcome?

5. Who is the famous Roman General that Plutarch claims Sertorius outwitted during his exile in Spain?

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