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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Hannibal want his troops to do to destabilize the Roman army?
(a) Force them out before breakfast.
(b) Force them out during a torrential rain.
(c) Force them out as it was sunny.
(d) Force them out at night.

2. What is unsure about Fabius and Minucius' armies?
(a) If one would be in reserve.
(b) If they would fight one after the other.
(c) If they would fight against each other.
(d) If they fight as one or separately.

3. What does the author say is speculation?
(a) Hannibal was not the military genius, his brother was.
(b) Hnannibal was a copy cat.
(c) Hannibal took no prisonners.
(d) That Hannibal used slaves as spies.

4. Where did Hannibal put together his army?
(a) From Gaul to Italy.
(b) From Africa.
(c) From Gaul.
(d) From Spain to Africa.

5. How old was Publius Cornelius Scipio during the Battle of Cannae?
(a) 14.
(b) 25.
(c) 16.
(d) 19.

6. What did Hannibal count on to toughen and train his troops?
(a) Games during the trip to Italy.
(b) Battling small tribes on the way to Italy.
(c) A severe training program.
(d) The tough terrain on the way to Italy.

7. What did Hannibal encourage his soldiers to do?
(a) Take slaves.
(b) Leave.
(c) Fight.
(d) Be without mercy.

8. What language did Hannibal speak besides Carthaginian?
(a) Roman.
(b) Gaul.
(c) Celt.
(d) Greek.

9. How many soldiers were taken prisoner by Hannibal during the Battle of Cannae?
(a) 19,000.
(b) 8,000.
(c) 25,000.
(d) 15,000.

10. Why did Roman horsemen dismount during the battle?
(a) They wanted to fight dismounted.
(b) They were ordred to do so to avoid going to much ahead of the ground force.
(c) Their general was injured.
(d) They switch side.

11. What hindered Hannibal's army in previous battles against the Romans?
(a) Their slow elephant.
(b) The heat.
(c) The dampness of the ground.
(d) The cold.

12. How were the Romans able to defeat Carthage?
(a) By learning to fight like Hannibal.
(b) By amassing a larger army.
(c) By ignoring what their training told them.
(d) By learning to fight like Greeks.

13. How many soldiers survived with Varro?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 12,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 15,000.

14. What reputation did Hannibal have, according to some historians?
(a) A good man.
(b) A clever man.
(c) A butcher.
(d) A monster.

15. What did Hannibal lose while avoiding the Roman army?
(a) An arm.
(b) Sight in one eye.
(c) A leg.
(d) A finger.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did some aggressive Celts attack Hannibal?

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

3. How many cavalrymen died during the Battle of Cannae?

4. What followed the pinning of the center of an army in Hannibal's tactics?

5. When were the soldiers that survived Cannae allowed to return from exile?

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