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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Plutarch report to be the father of Agis and Agesilaus?
(a) Archidamus, king of the Lacedaemonians.
(b) Alcibiades.
(c) Zeuxidamus, King of the Lacedaemonians.
(d) Duris the historian.

2. What question, according to Plutarch, did Cato ask his guardian, Sarpedon, as he watched executions that were ordered by the Roman political leader?
(a) "Is this the only justice for these criminals?"
(b) "What leader would cause this horror?"
(c) "What law brings this type of justice?"
(d) "Why does nobody kill this man?"

3. To whose death did Plutarch compare the death of Phocion?
(a) To Cato's.
(b) Aristotle's.
(c) To Caesar's.
(d) To Sertorius'.

4. What preceded Caesar's election by the Senate to Dictator, according to Plutarch?
(a) Cassius choosing to join Caesar's army.
(b) A crowd stirring speech by Antony.
(c) His defeat over Pompey in a civil war.
(d) Brutus' pledge of support to Caesar.

5. What does Plutarch declare to be the condition of men in public life?
(a) "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
(b) "...(They) are content to make themselves the slaves and followers of all the people's humors and caprices."
(c) "You see what power is--holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them."
(d) "There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endangerment of the public liberty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Plutarch report to be Agesilaus' physical deformity?

2. From whom did Phocion learn of the military during his youth, according to Plutarch?

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

4. What battle against Macedon, according to Plutarch, that Phocion warned against taking that the Athenians lost under a different general?

5. How did Alexander show favor to Eumenes, according to Plutarch?

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