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

2. What subject does Plutarch report Sertorius mastered as a youth?
(a) Oratory.
(b) History.
(c) Grammar.
(d) Mathematics.

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

4. What does Plutarch claim Aristotle provided that he considered, "...a perfect portable treasure of all military virtue and knowledge...."?
(a) Aristotle's writings regarding the proper training and preparation of soldiers.
(b) Aristotle's collection of military histories.
(c) Aristotle's maps of important sites in Persia.
(d) Aristotle's personally corrected copy of Homer's Illiads.

5. From whom did Phocion learn of the military during his youth, according to Plutarch?
(a) Eumenes, the Spartan.
(b) Philip, the Macedonian.
(c) Chabrias, the General.
(d) Sertorius, the Roman.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what hearing before the Senate did Cato first confront Caesar, according to Plutarch?

3. 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?

4. Why does Plutarch claim Philip believed that Alexander was a demi-god?

5. Who does Plutarch report ruled Rome in a Triumvirate while Cato served in the Senate?

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