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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The plan to protect the city included building ___ walls around the perimeter.
(a) Fortified.
(b) Stone.
(c) Movable.
(d) Wooden.

2. Polemides returns to his former life as a _____.
(a) Lobbyist.
(b) Soldier.
(c) Messenger.
(d) Teacher.

3. What term is used to mean "war leader"?
(a) Polemarch.
(b) Perimite.
(c) Parapet.
(d) Patriarch.

4. Alcibiades is marked for death due to his ____.
(a) Intellect.
(b) Ambition.
(c) Skill.
(d) Betrayal.

5. Soldiers were continually hired even during periods of ____________.
(a) A truce.
(b) Victory.
(c) War.
(d) Peace.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the period of disease and death, it is said that ____ reigned.

2. Who begins to keep a chronicle of the war?

3. Jason collects _______ belonging to Polemides to show to officials.

4. Jason encounters an old comrade named ____.

5. Who assassinated Alcibiades?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Telamon? What was his relationship to Polemides?

2. Discuss the battle between Athens and Sparta. What is the relationship between Alcibiades and Lysander?

3. Who was Eunice? How was she attached to Polemides?

4. Discuss the scene in which Nicias addresses the Athenian Assembly.

5. Describe Polemides' claim to fame and the reason he was imprisoned.

6. Who is the main character in the story? What happens to him?

7. Jason and Polemides were not accounted prior to Polemides' trial. How did the men meet?

8. What happened to Lion and Polemides at this time?

9. What happens to the Athenians after they are defeated on Epipolae?

10. How did the Plague affect Polemides on a personal level?

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