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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book VIII - Thrice Nine Years (Chapters XXXVIII-XLII).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the narrator's Laconian name?
(a) Polemarch.
(b) Polaepitus.
(c) Polemidas.
(d) Polinicus.

2. The narrator bore _____ unhealed wounds on his legs.
(a) 19.
(b) 14.
(c) 27.
(d) 8.

3. Which one of Polemides' family members also engaged in this vocation?
(a) Brother.
(b) Father.
(c) Sister.
(d) Son.

4. Which of the following is not on the list of people that follow the mandate that Heaven reigns?
(a) Peloponnesians.
(b) Dorians.
(c) Spartans.
(d) Athenians.

5. During this uprising, the statue of ____ is desecrated.
(a) Poseidon.
(b) Hermes.
(c) Athena.
(d) Zeus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Polemides discusses his new vocation as a _____.

2. Which word is used to refer to a small piece of gold?

3. The tables turn when the Athenians agree to Nicias' _____.

4. Rumors began to circulate about the invasion of:

5. What is it called when a crew turns against the ship's officer(s)?

(see the answer key)

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