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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a satrap?
(a) A Persian worker.
(b) A Persian provincial ruler.
(c) A Persian military leader.
(d) A Persian philosopher.

2. What held the men that Xenophon led in the military together?
(a) The loyalty they had for him and each other.
(b) The loyalty that they had for each other.
(c) The loyalty they had for him and the city.
(d) The loyalty they had for the city.

3. Which of the following was one of the ways to raise money for a military campaign in ancient Greece?
(a) To plunder a town.
(b) To sell weapons.
(c) To borrow from a town.
(d) To sell parts from ships.

4. Where were sailors able to live fairly well?
(a) Thasos.
(b) Chios.
(c) Lemnus.
(d) Imbros.

5. What audience is the book, "A History of My Times", trying to reach?
(a) The book was only written as a personal memoir.
(b) An academic audience.
(c) Every audience.
(d) A non-academic audience.

6. How were a majority of people in the military compensated in the classical era?
(a) They were paid moderately.
(b) They were paid abundantly.
(c) They were paid very little.
(d) They were unpaid.

7. How long were the sailors able to live fairly well?
(a) Not even one month out of the year.
(b) Half of the year.
(c) Most of the year.
(d) One month out of the year.

8. What is the advice given by the editor to those people that do not appreciate the notes at the end of the Introduction?
(a) Read the first half of them before reading the work itself.
(b) Pass over them and begin reading the work itself.
(c) Read them before reading the work itself.
(d) Do not read the work itself.

9. Which of the following are distinct from the author in "A History of My Times"?
(a) The translator and the editor.
(b) The translator and the writer of the introduction.
(c) The writer of the introduction and the editor.
(d) The translator, the editor, and the writer of the introduction.

10. How accessible is Xenophon's writing style for current readers?
(a) Not accessible at all.
(b) Somewhat accessible.
(c) Very accessible.
(d) Mostly accessible.

11. What type of ruler is Mania described as?
(a) Neither sincere nor effective.
(b) Sincere, but ineffective.
(c) Sincere and effective.
(d) Effective, but not sincere.

12. Where did Cyrus battle his brother?
(a) Susa.
(b) Persepolis.
(c) Sardes.
(d) Cunaxa.

13. Which one of the following was Cyrus's brother?
(a) Clearchus.
(b) Ariaeus.
(c) Tissaphernes.
(d) Artaxerxes.

14. How did Mania become the satrap?
(a) She had already ruled another city.
(b) Her husband died.
(c) She was voted in.
(d) She was tricked into it by a political party.

15. Which political leadership worked on the efforts to befriend the Spartans?
(a) The Dorians.
(b) The ephors.
(c) The assembly.
(d) The Pericles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is each one of the chapters in the second book devoted to?

2. Mania shares her name with a Greek mythological personification. What has been named after this personification?

3. What is the fewest amount of ships involved in the water and shoreline battles of Chapter 1?

4. Who was Alcibiades' mentor?

5. What is the major issue of the second chapter?

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