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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is each one of the chapters in the second book devoted to?
(a) The description of a different military leader.
(b) The description of a different battle.
(c) The description of a different war ship.
(d) The description of a different city.

2. What is significant about Alcibiades?
(a) He is the only name in the book that people educated in philosophy would not recognize.
(b) He is the only name in the book that people educated in philosophy would recognize.
(c) He is the first name mentioned in Chapter 1.
(d) He is the last name mentioned in Chapter 1.

3. What was the incentive for women to serve in the ancient Greek military?
(a) They were given the power to make laws.
(b) They were paid before and after the battles they participate in.
(c) They were eligible to rule a city after participating in battle.
(d) They were granted the rights of citizenship.

4. What did the sailors do when they were not at war?
(a) They found work in the area.
(b) They took a vacation.
(c) It is not known.
(d) They found work with another military.

5. What type of allies did Mania have?
(a) Both military and political allies.
(b) Only military allies.
(c) Neither military nor political allies.
(d) Only political allies.

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

7. How many men was Xenophon in charge of during his service in the military?
(a) Ten thousand.
(b) Fifteen thousand.
(c) Five thousand.
(d) Twenty thousand.

8. 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.

9. How often does Xenophon describe the way money is raised?
(a) He describes how money is raised in three cases.
(b) He describes how money is raised in every case except one.
(c) In some cases, he does not describe how money is raised.
(d) He describes how money is raised in every case.

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

11. What is the largest number of ships discussed in the battles of the first chapter?
(a) One hundred.
(b) Seventy.
(c) Eighty.
(d) Ninety.

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

13. How many ships were made available to Cyrus by his Spartan ally?
(a) Two ships.
(b) Almost an entire fleet.
(c) Half of a fleet.
(d) An entire fleet.

14. How did Xenophon begin his story?
(a) Similar to the way contemporary non-fiction writers begin.
(b) Similar to the way contemporary fiction writers begin.
(c) Slightly different from the way contemporary fiction writers begin.
(d) Slightly different from the way contemporary non-fiction writers begin.

15. Which other historian's works did Xenophon have published?
(a) Thucydides.
(b) Theopompus.
(c) Dinon.
(d) Ephorus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the local politician observe in the story told in Chapter 2?

2. What effect did the circumstances of a particular battle have on the awarding of trophies?

3. How did Mania become the satrap?

4. In Book 2, Chapter 2, how long is the story about a specific plan to raise money in the book?

5. What was the purpose of the trophies that were made?

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