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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Agis and Cleomenes.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What was the most notable sign that Plutarch suggests that proves Caesar had begun to win popular support to challenge Sylla?
(a) When he praised an enemy of Sylla's, named Marius, during the eulogy of Marius' wife.
(b) When he took possession of a field owned by Sylla.
(c) When he allied himself with Sylla's enemies in the Senate.
(d) When he challenged Sylla's hold on power directly in the Senate.
2. Who does Plutarch report protected Cleomenes while he was in exile?
(a) King Ptolemy of Egypt.
(b) Aratus of Sycion.
(c) Phocion of Greece.
(d) Artaxerxes of Persia.
3. In what sort of family does Plutarch claim Eumenes was raised?
(a) A poor laboring family.
(b) A ruling class family.
(c) A military family
(d) A noble family.
4. 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."
5. How did the master of Rome prior to Caesar's reign make himself an enemy to Caesar, according to Plutarch?
(a) Cato warned the Senate of the ambitions of Caesar.
(b) Sylla wanted Caesar to put his wife away because her father, Cinna, was the ruler of Rome priort to Sylla.
(c) Crassus allied himself with Pompey in the Roman Senate to force Caesar into a triumvirate.
(d) Cassius conspired with Brutus to remove Caesar from contention for power.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to Plutarch, how did Cleomenes become King of the Spartans?
2. Who did Plutarch claim Agis had imprisoned and hanged?
3. What came of Rome after Crassus died, according to Plutarch?
4. How did Plutarch report Caesar lost his position as Dictator?
5. What does Plutarch declare to be the condition of men in public life?
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