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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 was established in Hannibal's army during the trip to Italy?
(a) A training program.
(b) An inner group of advisors.
(c) 5 small cities.
(d) A rigid chain of command.

2. How did Hannibal gain the support of the Gauls?
(a) He faked a Roman attack.
(b) He killed their leader and took his place.
(c) He paid them.
(d) He attacked a Gaul tribe, killed the men and boys and raped the women.

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

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

5. What was Hannibal willing to take?
(a) Risks.
(b) Punishment.
(c) Advise.
(d) Criticism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were the Romans able to defeat Carthage?

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

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

4. Who set traps for Hannibal's army?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Hannibal begin doing?

2. What happened to Hannibal's armada in mid-September?

3. What was the trip like as Hannibal put together his armada?

4. What reputation did Hannibal have among historians according to Chapter 4?

5. What did the Romans turn to?

6. Who was Hannibal met by when they crossed the Alps and what happened?

7. What did the Romans go into the battle thinking?

8. What happened when Hannibal eluded Publius Scipio?

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

10. What changed for the ghosts of Cannae?

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