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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the assassin that approaches Polemides?
(a) Kilgor.
(b) Barrabas.
(c) Evenrude.
(d) Telamon.

2. Polemides is offered a job as a _____.
(a) Mercenary.
(b) Priest.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Diplomat.

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

4. Which of the following adjectives is used to describe Alcibiades' personality?
(a) Open.
(b) Forceful.
(c) Cunning.
(d) Subtle.

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

6. The grandfather refers to _____ as being the noblest of men.
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Plato.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Alcibiades.

7. The narrator lost his child to which disease?
(a) Bubonic Plague.
(b) Cholera.
(c) Consumption.
(d) Typhus.

8. Which of the following is not one of the charges brought against Alcibiades?
(a) Impiety.
(b) Profanity.
(c) Treason.
(d) Heresy.

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

10. What is the name of the general that opposes the campaign?
(a) Nicolae.
(b) Nicias.
(c) Nicholaus.
(d) Nicodemus.

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

12. The man found that the city had been decimated by which disease?
(a) Typhus.
(b) Plague.
(c) Dysentery.
(d) Influenza.

13. Who assassinated Alcibiades?
(a) Polemides.
(b) Nicolaus.
(c) Jason.
(d) Plato.

14. Jason collects _______ belonging to Polemides to show to officials.
(a) Keepsakes.
(b) Photographs.
(c) Books.
(d) Journals.

15. How many weeks does this occur before the launch?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the great statesman and leader at the time?

2. How old was the child when he died?

3. Who addresses the Athenians?

4. Which charge worried Alcibiades the most?

5. Unable to make much headway, the fleet decides to _____.

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