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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book III - The First Modern War (Chapters XIV-XVII).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The grandfather served at all but which of the following?
(a) Sybota.
(b) Scione.
(c) Posidaea.
(d) Sparta.

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

3. Which of the following adjectives is used to describe Alcibiades' personality?
(a) Cunning.
(b) Subtle.
(c) Open.
(d) Forceful.

4. The grandfather lived through the time when the famous ______ was built.
(a) Parthenon.
(b) Lighthouse at Alexandria.
(c) Eiffel Tower.
(d) Colesseum.

5. The narrator lost his child to which disease?
(a) Bubonic Plague.
(b) Typhus.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Consumption.

Short Answer Questions

1. Alcibiades has which obvious physical defect?

2. What is the term used to describe the fleet of ships?

3. Where is the family home located?

4. The old comrade offers to help which of the following men to escape?

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

(see the answer key)

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