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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter X!, Polemides details the events in the battle of which of the following?
(a) Mantinea.
(b) Sparta.
(c) Konstantinos.
(d) Papagos.

2. Alcibiades is said to have had great _____.
(a) Charisma.
(b) Oratorical skills.
(c) Intellect.
(d) Lying skills.

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

4. During the period of disease and death, it is said that ____ reigned.
(a) Melancholy.
(b) Hope.
(c) Discontent.
(d) Anarchy.

5. The grandfather attained the rank of sail _____ in the military.
(a) Admiral.
(b) Captain.
(c) Colonel.
(d) Lieutenant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Only the grandfather and two other men spoke out in defense of the Ten ______.

2. What is the name of the Spartan general observed by Polemides?

3. Polemides no longer cares about the morals involved with the war; he only cares about which of the following?

4. This woman was referred to as a ____ wife.

5. Who wants to have Alcibiades killed?

(see the answer key)

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