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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. Where did Demosthenes encourage Greeks to resist the rule of Philip and Alexander, according to Plutarch?
(a) At the battle of Chaeronea.
(b) Through a Greek defensive alliance called Achaea.
(c) In the Athenian Assembly.
(d) On the streets of Athens.

2. What does Plutarch report led to Antony's suicide at the threat of being defeated by Octavian?
(a) He was cornered with the co-conspirators of Caesar.
(b) He sided with Lepidus in a civil war against Octavian.
(c) His love affair with Queen Cleopatra of Egypt and his defense of Egypt against Octavian.
(d) He began a civil war with Ocavian and Lepidus in an effort to take total power of Rome.

3. What was a political hurdle that Plutarch claimed Pompey had to overcome?
(a) He was a rival to Caesar.
(b) His father, Strabo, was so reviled by the Romans that they desecrated his body after his death.
(c) Pompey was not respected after he lost battles in Spain.
(d) He was a rival to Crassus.

4. Who joined Agis to turn back the laws that placed inherited land under control of a few wealthy families, according to Plutarch?
(a) Lysander, the son of Libys and Madroclidas, the son of Ecphanes.
(b) Cleomenes, husband to Agiatis.
(c) Agesilaus, his half brother.
(d) Leonidas, son of Cleonymus.

5. Why does Plutarch suggest that Cleomenes eliminated the office of ephors from Spartan Government?
(a) Because he discovered he was king in name only and that the ephors had all the power.
(b) Because the ephors were a barrier to his desire to battle the Greeks.
(c) Because the ephors were inciting the public to overthrow him.
(d) Because he discovered the ephors were stealing from the public coffers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Plutarch claim that Demosthenes was when he committed suicide to avoid capture by the Macedonians?

2. What did Plutarch claim came of Caius after his death?

3. What does Plutarch report that Antony did after his first reaction the Assassination of Caesar?

4. Which one of the four being compared does Plutarch report had no great action worthy of a commander?

5. What does Plutarch consider to be the difference between the reasons that Demosthenes and Cicero fled from the authorities?

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