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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name used to describe the upslope?
(a) Mound.
(b) Apex.
(c) Crease.
(d) Peak.

2. What was the name of the architect who had built the third Long Wall for Pericles?
(a) Callimortes.
(b) Calligraphus.
(c) Callimachus.
(d) Callicrates.

3. What killed Polemides?
(a) Heart attack.
(b) Typhus.
(c) Lockjaw.
(d) He was killed in battle.

4. The defect causes people to see Alcibiades as being more ____.
(a) Pathetic.
(b) Harmless.
(c) Vulnerable.
(d) Human.

5. Which of the following was most feared by Alcibiades?
(a) Snakes.
(b) Torture.
(c) Poison.
(d) Treachery.

Short Answer Questions

1. The grandfather served at all but which of the following?

2. A commotion from the ___ Court disrupted Polemides?

3. Which is not one of the qualities Alcibiades lacks?

4. What is the name of Polemides' cousin?

5. Which beverage was brought to Polemides in his cell?

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