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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. With whom did Pompey make war that Plutarch reported eventually led to his death in Egypt?
(a) Pompey led a civil war against Caesar in an attempt to take Caesar's power.
(b) Pompey led a civil war against Crassus to consolidate the power of the Triumvirate.
(c) Pompey led a civil war against Sertorius to exert Roman control over Western Europe.
(d) Pompey led a civil war against Antony after the assassination of Caesar.

2. What does Plutarch claim Aristotle provided that he considered, "...a perfect portable treasure of all military virtue and knowledge...."?
(a) Aristotle's writings regarding the proper training and preparation of soldiers.
(b) Aristotle's maps of important sites in Persia.
(c) Aristotle's personally corrected copy of Homer's Illiads.
(d) Aristotle's collection of military histories.

3. Why does Plutarch claim Philip believed that Alexander was a demi-god?
(a) Because Alexander showed unnatural skill and intelligence from an early age.
(b) Because Philip had a dream about serpents sleeping with Olympia that were signs of Jupiter's presence.
(c) Because Philip once saw a serpent sleeping with his wife and he was advised by a pagan priest that the serpent was Ammon (Zeus, Jupiter) who had taken that form.
(d) Because there were three omens that prophets interpreted that Alexander's birth was exalted.

4. How did Plutarch characterize Phocion's speech?
(a) "Few had ever said as much with a paucity of verbage."
(b) "...full of instruction, abounding in happy maxims and wise thoughts, but admitted no embellishment to its austere and commanding brevity."
(c) "...That even from his infancy, in his speech, his countenance, and all his childish pastimes, he discovered and inflexible temper,..."
(d) "Never had anyone said so much to so many with so few words."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Plutarch report Alexander died?

2. How does Plutarch compare the motivations of rebelling between Dion and Brutus?

3. Who did Plutarch report to be the first Roman official to try to take up the issue that confronted Tiberius after his election as tribune?

4. With whom does Plutarch report Agis ruled over the Lacedaemonians?

5. With whom did Pompey ally himself to overcome the reputation of his father, and who did Plutarch report they oppose in a civil conflict for power over Rome?

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