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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Cato the Younger.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Alexander show favor to Eumenes, according to Plutarch?
(a) By making Eumenes his spear carrier.
(b) By arranging Eumenes' marriage to the sister of his wife.
(c) By allowing Eumenes to train the royal horses.
(d) By employing Eumenes in the palace.

2. What does Plutarch report of Cato during this civil war?
(a) He fled with Pompey and stopped in Utica while Pompey proceeded to Greece.
(b) He remained in the Senate to help keep peace in Rome.
(c) He joined Caesar to benefit his career in the senate.
(d) He remained neutral only to be taken prison by Caesar after the war ended.

3. What was the most notable sign that Plutarch suggests that proves Caesar had begun to win popular support to challenge Sylla?
(a) When he allied himself with Sylla's enemies in the Senate.
(b) When he took possession of a field owned by Sylla.
(c) When he praised an enemy of Sylla's, named Marius, during the eulogy of Marius' wife.
(d) When he challenged Sylla's hold on power directly in the Senate.

4. What came of Rome after Crassus died, according to Plutarch?
(a) Pompey fled Rome out of fear of Caesar's desire to take total control.
(b) Caesar conspired to have Pompey assassinated.
(c) It collapsed into a civil war between supporters of Caesar and Pompey.
(d) The Senate was split in its support for Caesar or Pompey.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the Persian King that Plutarch reported Alexander defeated on his expedition to India?

2. What disaster does Plutarch report occurred on the day that Alexander was born that later added to the legend that he was a demi-god?

3. What does Plutarch claim Caesar chose to do while Sylla's power reached its peak?

4. What did Plutarch report to be the result of Cato's management of the exchequer?

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

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