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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Plutarch, why was the issue still alive for Tiberius in spite of previous efforts to address the issue?

2. What quote from Plato does Plutarch use to begin a criticism in his profiles of Demetrius and Antony?

3. What role did Antony eventually take in Rome, according to Plutarch, after Caesar's assassination?

4. What does Plutarch report that Antony did after his first reaction the Assassination of Caesar?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Plutarch, how did Tiberius' death affect Caius' entry into Roman politics?

2. What important position does Plutarch report Atarus took with Achaea, a league of Greek cities?

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

4. How does Plutarch show the differences in the personalities between Demosthenes and Cicero through their rhetorical style?

5. How did Ochus put himself in line to inherit Artaxerxes throne according to Plutarch?

6. How does Plutarch compare the deaths of Demetrius and Antony?

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

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

9. Why does Plutarch claim that Philip had Atarus poisoned?

10. How did Plutarch report that Demetrius fell in and out of favor with Athenians?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Caesar spared Brutus despite his alliance with Pompey in the civil war between Pompey and Caesar. What made Brutus important enough to spare and what does it say of Brutus that he participated in the assassination of Caesar after Caesar spared him. Explain your answers with support from Plutarch's "Lives" from both the chapters on Brutus and Caesar.

Essay Topic 2

Plutarch reports that Caesar's life and travels were intertwined by events caused by other people. Starting with his reason for leaving Rome because of Sylla's relationship with his family and ending with his defeat of Scipio in Africa, identify the destinations of Caesar, the reason he took the trip, and what his mission there meant for him personally and achieved for the Roman Empire.

Essay Topic 3

Plutarch's biography of Alexander gave explicit details of how Alexander was supposedly a demigod and Plutarch's reports of Alexander's youth seemed to give support to the myth. Detail Plutarch's accounts of Alexander's supposedly divine heritage and two stories from his youth which could be taken to suggest that Alexander's intelligence and physical abilities were well above normal.

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