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

2. Gylippus outlawed which of the following social pleasures?
(a) Shotput.
(b) Soccer.
(c) Drinking.
(d) Cards.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter XXI details the disaster on which area?

2. What was another name for the Peloponnesian War?

3. While Polemides works for Athens, he continues to run errands for which of the following?

4. What uprising occurs in the city before the ships launch?

5. At this point, ____ was at the height of her power.

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