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

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

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

4. Jason tells the narrator that he is a ______ whelp.
(a) Flightless.
(b) Brave.
(c) Greedy.
(d) Poor.

5. Where is the family home located?
(a) Byrnedale Hill.
(b) Holm Oak Hill.
(c) Gardener Hill.
(d) One Tree Hill.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children did Jason bury?

2. What was another name for the Peloponnesian War?

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

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

5. The grandfather refers to _____ as being the noblest of men.

(see the answer key)

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