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

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

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

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

5. What did Hannibal do that contradicted his reputation?
(a) He did not eat meat.
(b) He never killed a prisoner.
(c) He didn't know how to read.
(d) He buried his dead enemies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the tide of the war start to turn for the Roman according to "Cannae"?

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

3. What language did Hannibal speak besides Carthaginian?

4. How did Hannibal learn what he knew about the Roman army?

5. What do some historians call the Second Punic War according to " The Fox and the Hedge-Hog"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a plausible statement according to O'Connell in Chapter 5?

2. What was the one fact about Hannibal that went without dispute?

3. What did Hannibal know when the Romans dismounted?

4. What were Hannibal's men and animals suffering from?

5. Who set up a trap for Hannibal and his men?

6. What did the Romans turn to?

7. What would the Carthaginian soldiers do?

8. What changed for the ghosts of Cannae?

9. What happened in Rome after the battle in Cannae?

10. What did historians agree on regarding Hannibal's travels in Chapter 6?

(see the answer keys)

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