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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What choice did Hannibal tell his men was better that slavery?
(a) Retreat.
(b) Death or conquest.
(c) Bribbing oneself out of prison.
(d) Conquest.

2. What did Africanus do to protect his father?
(a) Round up horsemen.
(b) Round up soldiers.
(c) Round up spearmen.
(d) Round up women.

3. What did Hannibal know about the Roman army?
(a) Their equipment.
(b) Their weakest men.
(c) Their strength and weaknesses.
(d) Their commanders.

4. How many horsemen did Hannibal's army have?
(a) One for every 12 foot soldiers.
(b) One for every 13 foot soldiers.
(c) One for every 4 foot soldiers.
(d) One for every 15 foot soldiers.

5. How many legionaries died during the Battle of Cannae?
(a) 55,500.
(b) 65,500.
(c) 35,500.
(d) 45,500.

6. How many times did Hannibal marry?
(a) Twice.
(b) Four times.
(c) Three times.
(d) Once.

7. 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 African war.
(c) The first world war of history.
(d) The last good war of Rome.

8. When did the Romans try to annihilate the neighbors they had trouble with?
(a) 232 B.C.
(b) 222 B.C.
(c) 202 B.C.
(d) 212 B.C.

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

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

11. How did the Romans signal their incoming battle?
(a) The horses were prepared.
(b) A tunic flew above Varro's tent.
(c) The solders were chanting.
(d) Horns were blowing.

12. Where did the tide of the war start to turn for the Roman according to "Cannae"?
(a) Cannae.
(b) Massalia.
(c) Greta.
(d) Tiber.

13. What did he tell the slaves the winner of the fight to the death would earn?
(a) Freedom.
(b) The honor to fight for Hannibal.
(c) A quick death.
(d) Freedom, arms and a fast horse.

14. What question about Hannibal's travel is still unanswered?
(a) What clothes his army was wearing.
(b) How he fed elephants.
(c) If Hannibal's family followed him.
(d) Where he crossed the Alps.

15. When did Hannibal leave for Italy?
(a) June or July.
(b) May or June.
(c) April or May.
(d) July or August.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many soldiers survived with Varro?

2. How did Hannibal differ from other Carthaginians according to "Hannibal's Way"?

3. What did Hannibal lose while avoiding the Roman army?

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

5. Why were some of the Roman soldiers left behind?

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