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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. Only the grandfather and two other men spoke out in defense of the Ten ______.
(a) Kings.
(b) Commandments.
(c) Languages.
(d) Generals.

2. This woman was referred to as a ____ wife.
(a) Transitory.
(b) Convenient.
(c) Barracks.
(d) Camp.

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

4. During the period of disease and death, it is said that ____ reigned.
(a) Discontent.
(b) Melancholy.
(c) Hope.
(d) Anarchy.

5. What is the name of the narrator's dog?
(a) Moses.
(b) Gabriel.
(c) Guardian.
(d) Sentinel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which one of Polemides' family members also engaged in this vocation?

2. Where is the family home located?

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

4. How many months pass before Alcibiades is called to trial?

5. Polemides is asked to kill _____.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Polemides get into trouble because of his moral code?

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

3. Discuss the state of Athens at this point in the story. Who tells the story?

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

5. Examine Jason's account of the embarkation of the armada to Sicily. What happens to threaten the invasion?

6. What is the basic outline of Polemides' early history?

7. Discuss the Olympic Games as they relate to Alcibiades and the story.

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

9. Detail the outline of events that took place on Epipolae. How does it affect the Athenians?

10. Discuss the reason Alcibiades was called to court. What is the response of the public?

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