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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Dion, Marcus Brutus and The Comparison of Dion and Brutus.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What political difference does Plutarch recognize between "The Spartans"?
(a) Agis showed a lack of determination, but Cleomenes inspired revolution with boldness and violence.
(b) Agis was fiery and relentless, but Cleomenes was methodical and careful.
(c) Agis depended on sarcastic rhetorical skills, but Cleomenes rhetorical style was theatrical and well rehearsed.
(d) Agis was an uncontrolled revolutionary, but Cleomenes sought peaceful negotiations as a means of change.

2. What does Plutarch claim that Brutus' decision to betray Caesar prove?
(a) That he was ungrateful for the grace that Caesar extended to him after the civil war with Pompey.
(b) That he wanted the opportunity to rule Rome.
(c) That he harbored resentment for his abandoning his mother after their affair.
(d) That he was driven by principle and not emotion.

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 greeted with private boats and barges with streamers and garlands, but Phocion was treated as an enemy suspect.
(c) Other admirals were treated as an enemy suspect, but Phocion was greeted with private boats and barges with streamers and garlands.
(d) Other admirals were treated with ambivalence, but they regarded Phocion with tremendous fear.

4. What Roman political leader does Plutarch claim was a friend to Cato's family?
(a) Sylla.
(b) Caesar.
(c) Pompey.
(d) Sertorius.

5. What does Plutarch claim Caesar said when he heard of Cato's suicide?
(a) "Cato, I grudge your death, as you have grudged me the preservation of your life."
(b) "You're a greater man than I, Cato."
(c) "I come not to bury Cato, but to praise him."
(d) "My greatest enemy has been vanquished and now I can rule supreme."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Plutarch claim Aristotle provided that he considered, "...a perfect portable treasure of all military virtue and knowledge...."?

2. How does Plutarch claim that Demosthenes became the best orator of his time?

3. What was the most notable sign that Plutarch suggests that proves Caesar had begun to win popular support to challenge Sylla?

4. Who joined Agis to turn back the laws that placed inherited land under control of a few wealthy families, according to Plutarch?

5. What question, according to Plutarch, did Cato ask his guardian, Sarpedon, as he watched executions that were ordered by the Roman political leader?

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