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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 joined Agis to turn back the laws that placed inherited land under control of a few wealthy families, according to Plutarch?
(a) Cleomenes, husband to Agiatis.
(b) Leonidas, son of Cleonymus.
(c) Agesilaus, his half brother.
(d) Lysander, the son of Libys and Madroclidas, the son of Ecphanes.
2. Who does Plutarch report commissioned Caesar to travel to Spain?
(a) Crassus, who was the richest man in Rome.
(b) Pompey, who knew he needed Caesar's help.
(c) Cassius, who desired to remove Caesar's influence from the Senate.
(d) Cato, who saw the value of expanding the empire.
3. What does Plutarch report of Cato during this civil war?
(a) He remained in the Senate to help keep peace in Rome.
(b) He remained neutral only to be taken prison by Caesar after the war ended.
(c) He fled with Pompey and stopped in Utica while Pompey proceeded to Greece.
(d) He joined Caesar to benefit his career in the senate.
4. What does Plutarch claim caused Caesar and Pompey to become rivals for power?
(a) Crassus' death.
(b) Pompey's alliance with Crassus.
(c) Pompey's defeat to Sertorius in Spain.
(d) The rivalry between Pompey's father and Caesar's family.
5. What did Plutarch report of Phocion's temperament?
(a) "He that remonstrates with them (public bodies) on their errors is presumed to be insulting over their misfortunes...."
(b) "For assuredly there is difference enough among virtues of the same denomination as between the bravery of Alcibiades and that of Eapmindondas,..."
(c) "...That public bodies are most insulting and contumelious to a good man,...."
(d) "...that scarcely was he ever seen by any Athenian either laughing, or in tears."
Short Answer Questions
1. What subject does Plutarch report Sertorius mastered as a youth?
2. What was a political hurdle that Plutarch claimed Pompey had to overcome?
3. Where does Plutarch report Alexander died?
4. What did Plutarch report to be Agesilaus' physical deformity?
5. How far to the East did Plutarch claim Alexander spread his empire?
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