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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What followed the pinning of the center of an army in Hannibal's tactics?
(a) An envelopment .
(b) A double envelopment.
(c) An attack from behind.
(d) An attack from the side.

2. What do some historians call the Second Punic War according to " The Fox and the Hedge-Hog"?
(a) The longest war of Italy.
(b) The first world war of history.
(c) The last good war of Rome.
(d) The first African war.

3. How much of the Roman senate was in the army going to Cannae?
(a) Half.
(b) All of it.
(c) None.
(d) A quarter to a third.

4. How long did those who serve in the military have to enlist for in periods of great danger?
(a) 20 years.
(b) 15 years.
(c) 25 years.
(d) 30 years.

5. What was unique about the tablet Polybius studied?
(a) It was touched by Hannibal.
(b) It was inscribed by Hannibal.
(c) It was disctated by Hannibal.
(d) It was forged by Hannibal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hannibal encourage his soldiers to do?

2. What was there little of in Carthage?

3. What was the Roman tradition when two armies came to fight together?

4. When did the Romans try to annihilate the neighbors they had trouble with?

5. What did Hannibal know about the Roman army?

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