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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book IV - Sicily (Chapters XVIII-XX).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Which man has grown in stature and played a vital role in the battle?
(a) Pericles.
(b) Alcibiades.
(c) Adamidis.
(d) Papagos.

4. Only the grandfather and two other men spoke out in defense of the Ten ______.
(a) Kings.
(b) Generals.
(c) Languages.
(d) Commandments.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Polemides returns to his former life as a _____.

3. Chapter XIX shows the Athenian fleet hampered by the loss of its best _____.

4. Polemides is offered a job as a _____.

5. Rumors began to circulate about the invasion of:

(see the answer key)

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