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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Alcibiades tried to combat the charge by arranging a campaign consisting of ____.
(a) Protestors.
(b) Letters.
(c) Petitions.
(d) Intervention.

2. Who returns to the city after a fall?
(a) Pericles.
(b) Polemides.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Aristophanes.

3. Which one of Polemides' family members also engaged in this vocation?
(a) Brother.
(b) Father.
(c) Sister.
(d) Son.

4. How many wives did Jason have?
(a) Four.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

5. Rumors began to circulate about the invasion of:
(a) Germany.
(b) Crete.
(c) Sicily.
(d) Egypt.

6. What is the term used to describe the fleet of ships?
(a) Envoy.
(b) Flotilla.
(c) School.
(d) Armada.

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

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

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

10. Who sends an official message to Polemides regarding the invasion?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Euryptolemus.
(c) Alcibiades.
(d) Lion.

11. Polemides is asked to kill _____.
(a) The sick.
(b) His child.
(c) Pericles.
(d) Alcibiades.

12. The grandfather lived through the time when the famous ______ was built.
(a) Colesseum.
(b) Eiffel Tower.
(c) Parthenon.
(d) Lighthouse at Alexandria.

13. What is the name of Jason's grandfather?
(a) Alcibiade.
(b) Alexicles.
(c) Abydos.
(d) Axiochus.

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

15. One afternoon, the grandfather says that memory is a(n) ____ goddess.
(a) Fickle.
(b) Elusive.
(c) Unforgiving.
(d) Queer.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was the man when he died?

2. In Chapter X!, Polemides details the events in the battle of which of the following?

3. Which of the following is discounted as a good general?

4. Polemides returns to his former life as a _____.

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

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