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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Galba and Otho.

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 at Chaeronea.
(b) The battle for Euboea.
(c) The battle of Delphi.
(d) The battle of Persia.

2. 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."

3. There were 12 Roman Caesar's. Which one is Plutarch chronicling?
(a) Caesar Augustus.
(b) Tiberius Caesar.
(c) Octavious Caesar.
(d) The first Caesar, Gaius Julius Caesar.

4. How does Plutarch compare the climb to power between Agesilaus and Pompey?
(a) Pompey made his rise to power by murdering rivals, but Agesilaus rose by negotiating with rivals.
(b) Pompey made his rise to power with great military victories, but Agesilaus rose by negotiating peace.
(c) Pompey made his rise to greatness by confronting tyrants, but Agesilaus rose through allying with tryants.
(d) Pompey made his rise to greatness by the fairest and justest means, but Agesilaus rose through the deception of a misinterpreted prophesy.

5. Who were they, and what were the nationalities of Alexander's parents, according to Plutarch?
(a) Eumens of Sparta, and Cleopatra of Persia.
(b) Philip of Macedon, and Olympia of Greece.
(c) Attalus of Macedon and Olympia of Greece.
(d) Philip of Greece, and Potidaea of Rome.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was the Artaxerxes from Plutarch's "Lives" related to the first Artaxerxes to rule over Persia?

2. How did Galba respond to the rise of a competing emperor in Germany, according to Plutarch?

3. Who does Plutarch report protected Cleomenes while he was in exile?

4. How did Tiberius finally push his land reform law through the Senate, according to Plutarch?

5. How did Plutarch compare the deaths of "The Roman Brothers" to "The Spartans"?

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