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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, A History of My Times : Chapter 2, Book 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What aspect of fund raising does Xenophon choose to focus on in the second chapter?
(a) Stories and amounts.
(b) Stories, amounts, and solutions.
(c) Stories and solutions.
(d) Amounts and solutions.

2. Which of the following works is referenced in the first chapter?
(a) The Republic.
(b) The Symposium.
(c) The Apology.
(d) The Laws.

3. What city did Xenophon represent in the military?
(a) Athens.
(b) Olympia.
(c) Thebes.
(d) Sparta.

4. How is the bottom of the ranks characterized in the book?
(a) Heavy infantry.
(b) Light cavalry.
(c) Heavy cavalry.
(d) Light infantry.

5. Which biographer included Xenophon in his works?
(a) Plutarch.
(b) Demetrius of Magnesia.
(c) Laertius.
(d) Hermippus of Smyrna.

Short Answer Questions

1. What years do the events of the book take place?

2. How does Betty Radice suggest to readers that Xenophon's work should be read?

3. What are the main events of the first chapter focused on?

4. How did Xenophon begin his story?

5. What held the men that Xenophon led in the military together?

(see the answer key)

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