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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book VI - Victory at Sea (Chapters XXIX-XXXII).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much did the narrator's armor weigh?
(a) 75 lbs.
(b) 40 lbs.
(c) 50 lbs.
(d) 60 lbs.

2. What was the name of the "pretty park area?"
(a) Olympieum.
(b) Parthenon.
(c) Pantheon.
(d) Olympus.

3. Gylippus outlawed which of the following social pleasures?
(a) Cards.
(b) Soccer.
(c) Drinking.
(d) Shotput.

4. Polemides is asked to kill _____.
(a) His child.
(b) Pericles.
(c) The sick.
(d) Alcibiades.

5. Soldiers were continually hired even during periods of ____________.
(a) Victory.
(b) War.
(c) Peace.
(d) A truce.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of the man's body was injured?

2. At this point, ____ was at the height of her power.

3. What is the name of the assassin that approaches Polemides?

4. Lion discusses the "Iliad," which recounts the tale of which of the following?

5. When Polemides finds his cousin, he discovers a group of people involves in which of the following?

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