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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book VII - Feeding the Monster (Chapters XXXIII-XXXVII).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following was not on the list to protect Alcibiades aboard the ship?
(a) Xenocles.
(b) Macon.
(c) Lion.
(d) Timarchus.

2. What is the name of the narrator's dog?
(a) Guardian.
(b) Moses.
(c) Sentinel.
(d) Gabriel.

3. Upon his return, the man went to live with which of the following?
(a) Gertrude.
(b) Jane.
(c) Sylvie.
(d) Daphne.

4. How long did it take the narrator to reach Lacedaemon?
(a) Six months.
(b) Four months.
(c) Eight months.
(d) Ten months.

5. Who wants to have Alcibiades killed?
(a) Pericles.
(b) Lysander.
(c) Polemides.
(d) Jason.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the term used to describe the fleet of ships?

2. Which one of Polemides' family members also engaged in this vocation?

3. Polemides gets into trouble when his ______ overcome his superiors' orders.

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

5. Alcibiades writes: "Man's predicament is that he dwells at the intersection of necessity and ____."

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