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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. Which group does not fear God; it seeks to be God?
(a) Peloponnesians.
(b) Athenians.
(c) Spartans.
(d) Dorians.

2. Antalcidas tells Lysander that he has taken ____ to new heights.
(a) Bravery.
(b) Blasphemy.
(c) Heroics.
(d) Foolishness.

3. What is/are meliades?
(a) Daggers.
(b) Shoes.
(c) Wine.
(d) Constellation.

4. The defect causes people to see Alcibiades as being more ____.
(a) Pathetic.
(b) Human.
(c) Vulnerable.
(d) Harmless.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lysander refer to as a "solitary god?"

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

3. Polemides discusses his new vocation as a _____.

4. Which one of Polemides' family members also engaged in this vocation?

5. Who sends an official message to Polemides regarding the invasion?

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