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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Plutarch use the name, "Cato the Younger"?
(a) Because he had a half brother also named Cato.
(b) Because he also wrote of the grandfather, who's name was also Cato.
(c) Because he was one of two Catos serving in the Roman Senate.
(d) Because he was the youngest leader in Rome.

2. How did the master of Rome prior to Caesar's reign make himself an enemy to Caesar, according to Plutarch?
(a) Sylla wanted Caesar to put his wife away because her father, Cinna, was the ruler of Rome priort to Sylla.
(b) Crassus allied himself with Pompey in the Roman Senate to force Caesar into a triumvirate.
(c) Cassius conspired with Brutus to remove Caesar from contention for power.
(d) Cato warned the Senate of the ambitions of Caesar.

3. To whose death did Plutarch compare the death of Phocion?
(a) To Cato's.
(b) To Caesar's.
(c) To Sertorius'.
(d) Aristotle's.

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

5. Who does Plutarch report protected Cleomenes while he was in exile?
(a) Artaxerxes of Persia.
(b) Aratus of Sycion.
(c) King Ptolemy of Egypt.
(d) Phocion of Greece.

Short Answer Questions

1. What came of Rome after Crassus died, according to Plutarch?

2. How old was Alexander when Plutarch claims he took the Macedonian throne after Philip's death?

3. What event led Philip to commission Aristotle to teach Alexander, according to Plutarch?

4. How was Pompey acquitted of embezzlement that Plutarch reported was accused against his father after he died?

5. What does Plutarch report to be Phocion's retort when Athens began to celebrate the death of Philip of Macedon?

Short Essay Questions

1. On what occasion does Plutarch report Cato asked why his preceptor would not give him a sword to kill Sylla while he was being trained in Sylla's palace?

2. According to Plutarch, why did Cato fall into disfavor with Caesar?

3. What kind of commander did Plutarch consider Sertorius to be, and where did he fight and defeat Pompey?

4. What does Plutarch claim Cleomenes did to prevent the political turmoil that overtook Agis?

5. Why did Ptolemy's son, according to Plutarch, place Cleomenes under house arrest while he was in exile in Egypt?

6. How did Plutarch claim Eumenes caught the attention of Philip?

7. What did Plutarch identify as the myth regarding Alexander's lineage that Plutarch suggested his mother, Olympus, might have spread?

8. How does Plutarch report that Caesar was assassinated?

9. How long does Plutarch claim that Cato the Younger possessed an inflexible temperament?

10. What does Plutarch identify as the cause of Alexander turning against his father, Philip?

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