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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II - The Long Walls (Chapters VI-IX).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who returns to the city after a fall?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Aristophanes.
(c) Pericles.
(d) Polemides.

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

3. The man died ____ months before his birthday.
(a) Six.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

4. How old was the man when he died?
(a) 88.
(b) 101.
(c) 92.
(d) 91.

5. One afternoon, the grandfather says that memory is a(n) ____ goddess.
(a) Unforgiving.
(b) Elusive.
(c) Fickle.
(d) Queer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The man found that the city had been decimated by which disease?

3. What is the name of Jason's grandfather?

4. Who was the great statesman and leader at the time?

5. What was the name of the man's sister?

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