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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Polemides discusses his new vocation as a _____.
(a) General.
(b) Farmer.
(c) Soldier.
(d) Sailor.

2. What term is used to mean "war leader"?
(a) Parapet.
(b) Patriarch.
(c) Polemarch.
(d) Perimite.

3. It is said that camp wives are only one step above _____.
(a) Insects.
(b) Slaves.
(c) Animals.
(d) Whores.

4. Who begins to keep a chronicle of the war?
(a) Polemides.
(b) Narrator.
(c) Jason.
(d) Lion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wants to have Alcibiades killed?

2. Gylippus was a general from which area?

3. Alcibiades' counselors suggest that he go to which location?

4. Gylippus fortified the Little Harbor with seawalls and _____.

5. Polemides is asked to kill _____.

(see the answer key)

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