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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book IX - Tides of War (Chapters XLIII-XLVI).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many months pass before Alcibiades is called to trial?
(a) Six.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

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

4. At this point, ____ was at the height of her power.
(a) Sparta.
(b) Athena.
(c) Poseidon.
(d) Athens.

5. What type of poison did Eunice use to kill the baby?
(a) Belladonna.
(b) Hemlock.
(c) Oleander.
(d) Nightshade.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gylippus was a general from which area?

2. Chapter 35 mentions the existence of which of the seven deadly sins?

3. The grandfather refers to _____ as being the noblest of men.

4. What part of the man's body was injured?

5. What is the narrator's Laconian name?

(see the answer key)

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