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

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

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

4. When were the soldiers that survived Cannae allowed to return from exile?
(a) 205.
(b) 201.
(c) 204.
(d) 203.

5. What was even more difficult to do than going up icy slopes?
(a) Going down rocky slopes.
(b) Feeding horses.
(c) Going down icy slopes.
(d) Taming elephants.

Short Answer Questions

1. What captive did Hannibal use to teach his troops a lesson?

2. What question about Hannibal's travel is still unanswered?

3. What reputation did Hannibal have, according to some historians?

4. What neighbor did Rome have trouble with?

5. What language did Hannibal speak besides Carthaginian?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did the Romans turn to?

4. What weakness of Hannibal did Fabius Maximus figure out?

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

6. What did Hannibal know when the Romans dismounted?

7. What would the Carthaginian soldiers do?

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

9. What changed for the ghosts of Cannae?

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

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