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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what sort of activity did Eumenes get the attention of Philip of Macedon, according to Plutarch?
(a) Breaking horses at a stable.
(b) Delivering speeches in his school.
(c) Working as a servant in Philip's palace.
(d) Youth matches in Cardia.

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

3. How did Alexander show favor to Eumenes, according to Plutarch?
(a) By making Eumenes his spear carrier.
(b) By employing Eumenes in the palace.
(c) By allowing Eumenes to train the royal horses.
(d) By arranging Eumenes' marriage to the sister of his wife.

4. How was Pompey acquitted of embezzlement that Plutarch reported was accused against his father after he died?
(a) Pompey pledged his loyalty to Sylla.
(b) Pompey proved his father was in Spain governing the Roman province when the money had disappeared.
(c) Pompey set us his own slave as having stolen the funds.
(d) Pompey traced the thefts to a freed slave of his father's, named Alexander.

5. What victory of Phocion over the Macedonians did Plutarch report as being that which earned the admiration of Philip, King of Macedon?
(a) The battle of Delphi.
(b) The battle of Chaeronaea.
(c) The battle of Persia.
(d) The battle for Euboea.

6. In what sort of family does Plutarch claim Sertorius was raised?
(a) A ruling class family.
(b) A poor laboring family.
(c) A military family.
(d) A noble family.

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

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

9. How did Plutarch compare Agesilaus and Pompey in their treatment of the men who supported their rise to power?
(a) Both Agesilaus and Pompey remained loyal to those who helped their careers.
(b) Both Agesilaus and Pompey betrayed those who helped them through their careers.
(c) Pompey remained loyal to Sylla even through the years Sylla had withdrawn his favor, but Agesilaus cast off Lysander with reproach after he rose to power on Lysander's misinterpretation of prophesy.
(d) Agesilaus placed Lysander in an important province to honor his help whereas Pompey began making political connections so he could escape the influence of Sylla.

10. Who invaded Spartan provinces while Cleomenes was making reforms in Spartan government, according to Plutarch?
(a) Macedonian King Philip.
(b) Roman General Pompey.
(c) Greek General Aratas.
(d) Persian King Darius.

11. In what sort of family does Plutarch claim Eumenes was raised?
(a) A ruling class family.
(b) A poor laboring family.
(c) A military family
(d) A noble family.

12. 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) Other admirals were treated as an enemy suspect, but Phocion was greeted with private boats and barges with streamers and garlands.
(b) Islands were opened very freely to other admirals, but they feared Phocion's plundering ways.
(c) Other admirals were treated with ambivalence, but they regarded Phocion with tremendous fear.
(d) Other admirals were greeted with private boats and barges with streamers and garlands, but Phocion was treated as an enemy suspect.

13. From whom did Phocion learn of the military during his youth, according to Plutarch?
(a) Sertorius, the Roman.
(b) Philip, the Macedonian.
(c) Eumenes, the Spartan.
(d) Chabrias, the General.

14. 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 of Persia.
(c) The battle for Euboea.
(d) The battle of Delphi.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Plutarch consider Agesilaus a better general than Pompey?

2. According to Plutarch, what eventually led to Alexander and his mother, Olympia, separating from Philip to become his rivals?

3. Who does Plutarch report commissioned Caesar to travel to Spain?

4. What did Plutarch report to be Phocion's view of war whenever he was brought into debates with other Greek leaders?

5. How did Plutarch describe Cleomenes' personality?

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