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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. What does Plutarch record that Antony did in response to Brutus' and Cassius' assassination of Caesar?
(a) Used the vacancy created by Caesar's death to attempt to fill a power vacuum.
(b) Recommend them as governors for Roman provinces.
(c) Joined their alliance so he could become part of the Roman power structure.
(d) Started an immediate pursuit to execute them for their crimes.

2. What does Plutarch claim Demosthenes did with his suicide?
(a) Satisfied his political opponents in the Athenian Assembly.
(b) Caused great sorrow to the Greeks who marveled in his wisdom.
(c) Laughed to scorn the cruelty of Antipater.
(d) Cheated Antipater of the opportunity to publicly humiliate him.

3. What does Plutarch consider to be the difference between the reasons that Demosthenes and Cicero fled from the authorities?
(a) Demosthenes flight for speaking truth to power was more noble that Cicero's flight out of fear because he had insulted a powerful general.
(b) The bribery accusation from which Demosthenes fled was less honorable than Cicero's flight for opposing Caesar's son's rule.
(c) The call to war that brought Athenians to despise Demosthenes was more admirable than Cicero's flight because he made enemies of powerful leaders.
(d) Demosthenes fled because his rhetoric made him the enemies of the powerful, but Cicero left for the humiliation of insulting his superiors.

4. With whom does Plutarch report that Cicero joined in a conspiracy with against the son of Caesar?
(a) Brutus and Cassius.
(b) Pompey and Crassus.
(c) Cataline and Darius.
(d) Antony and Lepidus.

5. According to Plutarch, what lead to the death of Aratus' father?
(a) He was chosen to as a magistrate over Sicyon as it tried to relieve itself from several tyrannies.
(b) He died in battle for Sicyon.
(c) He was killed after being exposed as leader of a conspiracy to overthrow a tyranny.
(d) He was killed by a jealous magistrate wanting to take his power.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Plutarch consider to be the difference in the military achievements between Dion and Brutus?

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

3. Why did Plutarch report Cyrus attempted to overthrow Artaxerxes?

4. Based upon the intended audience of the profile on Aratus, what does Plutarch establish as his focus?

5. What does Plutarch report led to Antony's suicide at the threat of being defeated by Octavian?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Plutarch consider to be the difference between the several wives that Demetrius took as opposed to Antony taking up with Cleopatra?

2. How did Plutarch show the differences in the motivations for speaking between Demosthenes and Cicero?

3. How did Plutarch compare the military achievements of Brutus and Dion?

4. 1.What does Plutarch recognize as the major difference between the governing styles between the Gracchi and the Spartans?

5. According to Plutarch, why did Atarus leave Sicyon to grow up and get educated in Argos?

6. Why does Plutarch suggest Caesar showed favor to Brutus despite Brutus siding with Pompey during the civil war with Caesar?

7. What does Plutarch consider to be the difference in the deaths of the Gracci and the Spartans?

8. What did Plutarch identify as the marks of Cicero's oratory style?

9. What does Plutarch claim was the result of Opimius undoing the land reforms that Caius enacted?

10. What does Plutarch report to be the condition of Rome as Tiberius began his political career in Rome?

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