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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 battle against Macedon, according to Plutarch, that Phocion warned against taking that the Athenians lost under a different general?
(a) The battle of Delphi.
(b) The battle for Euboea.
(c) The battle at Chaeronea.
(d) The battle of Persia.

2. Who was the Persian King that Plutarch reported Alexander defeated on his expedition to India?
(a) Antipater.
(b) Hercules.
(c) Philip.
(d) Darius.

3. What is the first similarity that Plutarch recognized between Sertorius and Eumenes?
(a) That they both came from laboring families but worked up to the Noble class.
(b) That they were both ferocious in battle.
(c) That they were both embraced by the political leaders of their countries.
(d) They were both banished to foreign lands, but came to be commanders of powerful forces.

4. How far to the East did Plutarch claim Alexander spread his empire?
(a) Babylon.
(b) Persia.
(c) India.
(d) Turkey.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Plutarch claim to be the three Macedonian Kings under whom Demosthenes lived?

2. What does Plutarch report of Cato during this civil war?

3. What does Plutarch declare to be the condition of men in public life?

4. Who did Brutus join in the successful assassination attempt against Caesar, according to Plutarch?

5. In what sort of activity did Eumenes get the attention of Philip of Macedon, according to Plutarch?

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